Word: stench
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...Actually there are no good things to say about Pine Bluff. Rand-McNally named it the worst city in the nation in 1988. ABC News even showed up to film a 20/20 segment. Those who decide to venture into the city anyway should be prepared for the omnipresent stench of the paper mill, the city's only industry...
...provincial capital of Cabanatuan, rescue workers used handkerchiefs to ward off the stench of decaying bodies as they worked in the sweltering heat to peel away the remains of a six-story school building. "It happened so fast," said Abelaida Belino, a school principal who was in her office when the quake hit. "I had to stumble my way out. But I'm very lucky. I feel like I've been given a new life...
...cell door clanged shut with an unsettling finality. It was almost completely dark and the stench was appalling. When my eyes adjusted, I saw that we were in a concrete cell, about five by eight feet in diameter. A bucket stood in one corner, and three men shared a cigarette in the other. We stood awkwardly in our corner, not knowing what to say, fearing hostility. After a pause, one of the men beckoned us over, gravely passing Zac the cigarette. Zac inhaled deeply. This barrier down, we talked. Blacka was from Kingston. He was being tried for murder...
Despite their reputation as dirt lovers, pigs have generally good sanitary habits. Potbellies can be housebroken faster than most dogs, which is one reason they make tolerable house pets. Leilani Appleyard, a psychotherapist in suburban Rochester, notes that visitors sometimes comment on the absence of house stench after meeting her two-year-old pig Gretel...
Inside the house were more bodies: Fathers Amado Lopez and Juan Ramon Moreno, both Spaniards; Father Joaquin Lopez y Lopez, a Salvadoran; and the cook's 15-year-old daughter. By midday the bodies were still lying beneath the sun, and the potent stench of lifeless flesh, which I associate so closely with El Salvador, was already fouling their once peaceful place of refuge...