Word: stench
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...President, it is my observation in looking about the chamber today that the stench of the Flynn appointment has become so nauseating to the majority members of the Senate that when it was known quite generally that the Senator from New Hampshire would make further remarks regarding Mr. Flynn a great majority of them beat it to the cloakrooms...
Instead, I opened the barracks windows to let out the stench that permeated the temporary home of our aviation cadets. After watching plane after plane take off on training maneuvers I somehow felt wholesome again...
...inside out, placed an enormous red geranium behind one ear, a pearl necklace round his neck, and finally smeared his whole body with a mixture of goat dung and aspic. From this there emerged, says Dali, "Miracle of miracles!-the 'exact' odor of the ram . . . a stifling stench...
...area adjoining Buna. But bombers and strafing fighters sank nearly all their landing barges after hitting the warships which were standing by. Though they knew they faced annihilation, the Japs fought fanatically. In one pocket, where 638 Japs were killed, the living were observed wearing gas masks against the stench of their fellows. No man among the Allies expected the remaining Japs to surrender, even though the last man was backed into the water or left alone in a concrete pillbox...
Called the Precipitron, this electrostatic air cleaner developed by Westinghouse now stands silent guard in the plants where binoculars, range finders and periscopes are made, in arsenals where ammunition is loaded. It keeps unsullied the polished surfaces of precision gauges, whisks away the stench of welding. Newest use, revealed last week by Westinghouse, is purifying the air for the blast furnaces at a new steel plant, where fumes and grit could quickly erode the high-speed blades of the blowers...