Word: stench
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...many people died at An Loc, but what catches the eye is the graves. They are everywhere. The citizens and soldiers in the city were buried where they fell. One grave contains 600 bodies that were hastily covered over in an effort to rid the city of their stench. Another contains only the body of a young girl who used to joke and laugh with the troops; it is well tended...
...year ago, the burghers of Hannêche in eastern Belgium began complaining about "that awful smell" emanating from the rusty vats stored in an abandoned sugar-beet factory. Cats died from it. Trees shed their leaves. Grass turned brown. One of the stored vats burst, and the stench, rather like the smell of decomposing rats, brought still more complaints from the village of Burdinne, six miles away. Only last month, finally, did the ministry of labor, which deals with environmental problems, get around to investigating. It found that the vats contained between 2,000 and 3,000 tons...
...hour of day or night the summons may come. Then the young Nisei from California must trudge down to the waterfront in Japan and pitch in at one of the world's oddest jobs: measuring dead whales. "When the mountainous carcasses are cut up, the stench is stifling," says Lawrence Tsunoda, 28, a marine mammalogist from San Diego. "As for the pools of blood, well...
...Central Park's Delacorte Theater, is not the brooding surgeon of his agonized soul, not a raging, grieving mourner at the yawning grave of all existence. Instead he is a kind of Danish Willy Loman. He would like to be well-liked at Elsinore. He barely sniffs the stench of corruption at the court but is baffled by the toughness of the territory, as if it were New England. And like Willy Loman, he is virtually humorless, unable to season his despair or get a proper perspective on himself. Because he is an extravert, Keach is weakest...
...here. North Viet Nam will not give up, Nixon will not give up, Thieu will not give up, the Russians will not give up. Everyone presses on-even the pitiable people of Viet Nam, except, of course, those whose twisted, bloated, blown bodies litter the roads and fields, the stench of their death carried on the wind...