Word: stench
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...huddled indoors after dark fearing attacks by government thugs, now roam the streets at all hours. "The people are amazingly patient," says a professor at the national university. "They know it's night and day from three months ago. They can breathe freely now." In Haiti, at last, the stench of evil is fading away...
...transfusions cannot rehydrate victims in time. Along the roadways and in the camps it has become hard to tell the sleeping from the dead until the bodies swell up in the tropical sun. Refugees wrap their faces in scarves and rags and surgical masks, hoping to filter the stench from the rotting bodies everywhere...
...silver tea settings, an embroidered cushion presented by another former dictator, Nigeria's Ibrahim Babangida. Greetings from Pope John Paul II and U.S. Secretary of State Warren Christopher, among others, are proudly displayed on shelves. In a teenager's room upstairs, the scent of spilled perfume mingles with the stench of decaying flesh that still pervades most corners of the dying city...
...forehead by a machete blade. Outside, a mother and child, caught from behind by screaming Hutu militia, lie face down in the flowers, locked in a pitiful final embrace. Farther away, in a low mission building, 400 more bodies are piled on one another, the rooms thick with the stench of rotting flesh. One woman and her baby tried to hide in a small pit toilet; they were discovered and hacked to death. "How can I come back here?" exclaims Consolata Mukatwagirimana, a young Tutsi woman of 27 who escaped the massacre six weeks ago that may have left...
Other students have complained about thepungent smell around the excavation sight. The"stench" has been constant since digging began,according to Jamian...