Word: stench
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...have been in action tell plenty of stories about the Japanese-how across the barbed wire in the forward positions the Nip dead are piled high. The stench is terrific. The Japs have been removing their dead by night and taking them by truckloads down to Manila...
These are two records of personal suffering written by two anti-Nazi-intellectuals caught in France by the war. Feucht-wanger-author of Power, The Ugly Duchess and other notable novels-was a peace-loving, contemplative Jew of 57. Except for the stench of Naziism in his nostrils, he had no interest in politics, little sense of events to come...
...temples amid blue lakes, green slopes and high peaks, a roughhewn, hard-bitten soldier of Cortez' army in 1519 cried, "It is like the enchantments they tell of in the Legend of Amadis! Are not the things we see a dream?" But soon he smelled the sickening stockyard stench which was wafted from the gorgeous temples, saw thousands of skulls threaded on poles in the public squares...
...dogfight"; then, from 4 p.m. until dark, it is ordinarily quiet. Each metropolitan dusk, in that suspended silence and foreboding, is deep with a quality of sadness new to history. And in this dusk the humble, scorning their useless surface shelters, form their huge processions toward the untoileted stench of the Tubes of the West...
Thus, as stiffly and artificially as a group of actors reading a bad play for the first time, did London's A. R. P. squads hold their first rehearsal of defense against gas. For a semblance of reality, a harmless gas with a stench like musty hay had been slopped in liquid form inside the roped off arena...