Word: stench
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Almost before the word environment was invented, Washington's Hopfenmaier rendering plant was a synonym for stench. Especially on warm afternoons, the conversion of animal carcasses to fertilizer and soap fills the Potomac air off Georgetown with such industrial halitosis that diplomats homeward bound from nearby Foggy Bottom inhale the gases and are tempted to ask for a transfer-anywhere...
Suffocating Stench. As the military left, Amman slowly revived. The city had suffered massive destruction as the army routed the guerrillas. Burned-out automobiles and tanks were dragged from the streets. With electricity still out in many areas, street-corner hawkers selling kerosene lanterns did a brisker business than did peddlers offering pictures of Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser. Shattered water mains were mended, but there were no pumps working to carry water to the top of Amman's hills. Over whole sections of the city hung the suffocating stench of death. A mass grave dug in the Ashrafiryeh...
...Japanese call the foul brown sludge hedoro, combining the words for "vomit" and "muck." Like an indisposed pagan god, the port bottom belches huge bubbles of methane gas and alkaloid matter to the surface. In July, the hydrosulfide stench caused workers aboard a dredger to faint. Naked fishermen diving for abalone near by broke out in a mysterious rash attributed to the tainted water. As a result, Fuji's problems seized Japan's headlines...
...follow my conscience then, it would lead me out into the desert with Marion Faye, out to where he stood in The Deer Park looking east to Los Alamos and praying, as if for rain, that it would happen: ... let it come and clear the rot and the stench and the stink, let it come for all of everywhere, just so it comes and the world stands clear in the white dead dawn...
...follow my conscience then, it would lead me out into the desert with Marion Faye, out to where he stood in The Deer Park looking east to Los Alamos and praying, as if for rain, that it would happen:'... let it come and clear the rot and the stench and the stink, let it come for all of everywhere, just so it comes and the world stands clear in the white dead dawn...