Word: stenches
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...itself. But if students are willing to go along with such recommendations as those laid down by the Amherst authorities, and to reassert them in the face of disapproval by the professional brothers who hold the purse-strings, the fraternity system may lose a good deal of the stench which has traditionally pervaded its operation...
...mysterious and sickening stench-which seemed to combine the odors of onions, ammonia, burning rubber, creosote, dried fish and wet dogs-was borne in upon San Francisco from the Pacific Ocean. It set housewives to sealing their windows with adhesive tape, drove office workers out of the upper floors of high buildings, gave some panicky citizens the idea that the city was being subjected to a gas attack. It turned out to be a gas called S-Ethyl-Thiouracil, which had been blown to sea from oil refineries, then blown back in again...
Just how absurd it all is readers of Storm and Echo will discover. Of his earlier gifts, Prokosch still retains a descriptive talent that can make the heat, the stench, and the occasional beauty of the African jungle almost tangible. Stripped of its pretentious symbolism, its agonized soul-searching, this could have been a good travel book. But the vivid jungle is matted and twined with the perilous Africa cliché, reminiscent of Hollywood's stock treatment: "Well," he muttered, staring up at the constellations, "don't go too deep into Africa. Don't try to grasp...
...Bars. The jail is a dark, dank, one-story building surrounding a dirty, unpaved patio. At least 500 men were packed in that patio. Some were crippled veterans of last year's civil war. Along the walls the sick lay in the sun. Over all hung the stench of the prison's single latrine...
...confused with the tufted dowager, red-eyed crosspatch, all-night thrasher, ruffled spouse, great stench, lesser stench, or double-breasted seersucker...