Word: stench
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...glory days are fast fading into history, but they’re still inspiring. Students saved thousands of lives in Vietnam by agitating for peace. The blood spilled at Kent State, the thousands of lungs that burned from the murky stench of tear gas, the files the FBI still keeps about our fathers—our parents’ generation we aren’t—but we profane their legacy with worldly concerns. Fretting about the economy at the expense of abortion rights, immigration, war, personal liberties and education is dereliction of duty...
...pipe that was all nasty, that we found in a closet.” The pipe had a capacity of six beers at a time, creating an epic mess on the ground floor. “You’d walk into Pennypacker for weeks afterward and smell the stench from the puddles that were left there.” As a result of the third floor’s activities, the fire stairways in Pennypacker have been subsequently alarmed, ensuring that future generations will not have the pleasure of inhaling alcohol from a stories-high tube...
...kill ordinary Catholics in large numbers. In murdering Finucane, it broke a taboo against targeting defense lawyers, considered immune because they represented both sides of the terror war. When U.D.A. members began to boast about official help, to the point of plastering secret security files on brick walls, the stench of collusion between loyalists and government forces could no longer be ignored. Still, it has taken the detective called in to conduct the investigation, John Stevens, 14 years to penetrate a tenacious cover-up by army and police officers. He says that records were withheld and much testimony was misleading...
...lived through the aerial attacks, it's the authentic description of life under the bomb. "It's almost unbearable to read", says Elisabeth Schumacher, a 79-year-old former diplomat from Bonn who spent many hours in air-raid shelters. "It conjures up the indescribable noise, heat and stench of cold sweat in the cellars." And younger readers, says Friedrich, are fascinated by the picture of a ruined Germany they never imagined looked "just like Sarajevo." It's also undeniable that Germany, for the moment, needs a public exploration of its past. Since his account of human pain and misery...
...recounted the stench of burnt flesh and death, the sight of bodies strewn “like fish” and the mental and physical anguish of her slow recovery...