Word: stench
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...Tribeca, with the gusts of dirt, the debris everywhere, the plume of smoke. People tended not to be out. Traffic was cut off for a while. I think it was the closest any of us have come to living in a war zone. It was a war zone. The stench, the tingle on your skin. There were power outages everywhere. The fires were burning for months. There was also a lot of confusion about what was safe and what was not. The air felt horrible, but no one knew whether it was poisonous...
...smell it for miles. Months after it is still there - the stench, the odor of decaying animals, mold from houses, oil and gas, all that fecal matter, all that in the air," Butler said. "One day in December I wound up staying too long and just after dark you could hear the varmints scurrying around. I realized at that moment this wasn't my home anymore...
...higher education--an M.B.A. still counts for something. But as G.J. Meyer wrote in his classic 1995 book, Executive Blues: Down and Out in Corporate America, a higher degree in something other than business or law--or, worse, a stint of college teaching--can impart a deadly "academic stench" to one's résumé. And what are we to make of the growing corporate defiance of elementary grammar? At a job fair I attended, AT&T Wireless solicited sales reps with the question, if it was a question, "Are you ready to put your skills to work. Like...
...delegation of Harvard students to Israel and the Palestinian Territories. My trip confirmed that only first-hand experience can portray the inherent injustice of military occupation. It is nearly impossible to imagine a human being more desolate and forlorn than one who waits hours in the sweltering sun and stench of garbage in order to be allowed by an 18-year old foreign soldier to reach his home, school or family. The Israeli government has justified its 40-year brutal occupation of Palestinians in the name of security and national preservation. Nevertheless, it seems that the sophisticated security apparatus...
...much revered Eli Soap Committee has worked with school administrators for years trying to convince them that the pungent stench of 5,000 dirty college students hampers the school’s ability to top the U.S. News & World Report annual college report. Even though administrators finally caved in January to the $100,000 price tag of providing soap in all bathrooms, Yalies are nicknamed Bulldogs not just for their impetuousness and pudgy looks: the smell hasn’t disappeared, and neither has our title as number...