Word: stench
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Floreat Domus de Eliot!” Let flourish the great house of Eliot! At least that’s the idea. Two weekends ago, in the late, late hours of Saturday night, the air still fresh with the stench of botched plumbing, Eliot House residents were greeted by yet another surprise. When the problem first became apparent, some were still losing themselves in the sweeping rhythms of “Since U Been Gone.” Others were, apparently, engaging in late night “study” sessions. Most were either sleeping...
...that, we urge you to question your motivation for staying home this weekend as The Game approaches. Aside from giving relief to the thousands of decent folk who also claim themselves as inhabitants of New Haven, you should come with a further assurance: Cambridge is prepared to absorb your stench in exchange for the joy of seeing your faces as the mighty Crimson emasculates the demure—at best—Bulldog for the sixth consecutive year...
...Green Zone the following morning, I saw the otherworldly experience of those who live and work in a section of the city hermetically sealed off from the chaos outside. The air-conditioned offices of the press center were cool, efficient and orderly, making the noise, heat and acrid stench of car exhaust throughout Baghdad seem a thousand miles away. The officers on hand processed my credentials quickly and easily, and joked around with my bodyguard...
...least one village, caused rice to stop growing and cancer rates to spike. But just last month, a tributary of the Tangbai was so polluted that when a TIME reporter drove by, hundreds of people stood along the banks of a stream with a powerful chemical stench, pulling out dead and dying fish. According to the fishermen, the same thing happened every month when paper mills and fertilizer factories upstream discharged their wastewater tanks. Stripped to their underwear and wading into the foul water with nets and baskets, the locals regarded the situation as predictable, even humdrum...
...spend your money better than you can. We don't," he said yet again. That has been one of Bush's most cherished bits of antitax demagoguery, except now it's clear that his Republicans have been anything but prudent about spending "your" money. Worse, there is the stench of anti-Washington, know-nothingism to it-as if "your" money weren't being spent on necessities like national defense, environmental protection or health care for the old and needy. That Bush would continue to indulge in this argument during wartime is shameful...