Word: stench
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...Khrushchev was making the most of catching the U.S. in an embarrassing spot. With typical peasant crudity, he snapped: "The foreign press is saying Khrushchev is only trying to torpedo the summit. My answer is: You and your masters are accustomed to calling a stench perfume. It is your excrement. So smell...
Pick Your Operation. Brinkley called his operation a graft. It was. of course, merely a swindle. But goat glands caught on. There were difficulties at first; it developed that glands from Angora goats gave patients an enduring stench, so stinkless Toggenberg goats were used. Brinkley showed flair approaching genius by allowing his suckers to choose their own goats, much in the manner, as the author observes, as one could pick his own lobster at a Maine shore restaurant. Later, the goat doctor refined his pitch: "Operations performed according to your selection; you pay only for what you choose." The suckers...
...lieutenant, an infantry officer, a combat airman, and he conferred on himself the navy title of comandante. He lost the sight of one eye landing his aircraft and sank a merchantman from a torpedo boat. To the end he remained the most bellicose of belligerents, complaining only "of the stench of peace." Rant & Rave. The peace left Italy with little to show for its half million dead. Beginning with nothing but bluff, strut and 287 men. D'Annunzio made his famed "march" (by -truck much of the way) on Fiume. which Woodrow Wilson thought should belong...
...spasms of self-pity: "I had to watch hour after hour, by day and by night, the removal and burning of the bodies, the extraction of the teeth, the cutting of the hair, the whole grisly, interminable business. I had to stand for hours on end in the ghastly stench ... I had to look through the peephole of the gas chambers and watch the process of death...
...error in tactics that brought "the hatred of the entire world" on Germany. Another statement of Hoess's makes it more difficult for the Germans who claim that they saw, heard or knew no evil of the murder camps. Says he: "When a strong wind was blowing, the stench of burning flesh was carried for many miles and caused the whole neighborhood to talk about the burning of Jews." Near another camp, children could identify the special bus loaded with victims and used to say, "There comes the murder box again...