Word: stench
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Last year the entire theatre was redone. The inroad of termites on the old seats in the second balcony was checked, and the ornate walls were repainted a clear cream color. But the Old Howard with its translucent stench rising to a few feet above the sea level on the ground floor is changing its cosmetics, not its complexion. This week as every week the stage show deals a knockout punch--a foul jab strictly below the belt. Rumor for years has claimed that the chorus of 30 beauties 30 is recruited from rheumatic jitterbugs on the list of retired...
...filthy, tattered flotsam of Calcutta's normal beggar population has always shocked the Westerner. Today thousands of refugees are streaming into the city from starving Bengal villages. Men, women & children swarm about hotel garbage cans, clawing hungrily over heaps of offal that spread a sickening pall of stench for blocks; Calcutta's hospitals, with beds for only a small percentage of the city's sick, report a score or more of starvation deaths daily. Private agencies feed 62,000 destitutes each day, cannot keep pace with the influx...
...death changed, one was the world standing of General Giraud. It was a slow and curious transition, and it was not all brought about by Giraud himself. Partly because of his own predilections and tendencies toward authoritarian ways, more because of the still cloudy policy of the U.S., the stench of Darlan along with his mantle seemed to shift to Giraud. Did he, Giraud, not harbor and use the same Vichyites whom Darlan had placed or kept in power? So, for weeks, it seemed to the world...
...Road became a cloud of dust by day, reeking with the stench of hot metal and gasoline. Bumper to bumper, crawling at five miles an hour, humping along at 25, went outsize lorries, gasoline and water transports, trailers laden with tanks, ten-ton Whites, ten-ton Macks, three-ton Fords and Chevrolets (75% of the wheeled traffic was U.S.-made), staff cars, jeeps, moving westward, returning eastward for more supplies...
...stench of bodies strewn along Hell Point and across the Tenaru spit was strong. Many of them lay at the water's edge, and already were puffed and glossy, like shiny sausages. Some of the bodies had been partially buried by wave-washed sand; you might see a grotesque, bloated head or twisted torso sprouting from the beach...