Word: stench
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...Taylor Homes are prisoners of their own apartments, marooned in a landscape bereft of opportunity. By day, mothers struggle to keep their children from playing on the enclosed porches for fear they will be shot. Inside, there are rats in the incinerator shafts, cockroaches in the hall and a stench in the elevators. "Robert Taylor ain't no future for no one," says Lasonya Evans, 20, who lives here with her aunt. "People have stopped dreaming. They don't have no more dreams...
...said she had entered the bathroom 15 minutes earlier, heard a person showering and smelled what she described as "a repulsive odor." She left immediately to avoid the stench and returned...
...tonner, the first of the many whose tonnage, idiosyncrasies and routes of their air hoses I would come to know and respect. And so there I was my first day, in a sliver of overgrown land between the warehouse and a meat packing plant from which an ominous stench poured forth. But the sky was clear and the sun was bright. I had arrived in Movie Land...at the very bottom, and I heaved a sigh of relief: no responsibilities, no pressure--just me and my purring air conditioner...
...aftermath of Watergate, Radek supervises Ingersoll's team. An even-tempered, down-to-earth Chicago native, he is known for his street savvy, lawyerly acumen and good judgment. After suffering a heart attack in the early 1990s, he has slimmed down and forsaken the cheap cigars whose stench once pervaded the office. He is passionate about golf (but has little time to play), and his Elvis impersonations for the public-integrity support staff at Christmas are legendary...
...Bite for nothing. Israel is also a country that believes in the rule of law. Of course, as the police admitted last week, it is hard to be absolute about what is political wheeling and dealing and what is breaking the law. But if enough Israelis conclude that the stench of scandal is too strong, they may be willing to help bring Netanyahu's bare-knuckle career...