Word: stenches
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...touch fragrant fingers to form graceful arches. But Berlin's people breathe the dust of ruins-ruins that have a kind of awful majesty. There is the burned, bombed hulk of the Reichstag with the crows napping foolishly around the beheaded statues on the roof, and the icy stench of a tomb breathing over its bricked-up entrances. A few blocks away along the Wilhelmstrasse, the granite walls of the battered Reichs-chancellery are plastered with neat, wheedling Communist posters: "Mothers, for the happy future of your children, vote S.E.D." Chalked on the famous balcony is this bitter beatitude...
...bishop, Varnava Nastich, was born 36 years ago in Gary (Ind.). In the nine years he lived there before going to Serbia, whence his parents had come, he breathed in the spirit of freedom along with Gary's stench and soot. In Serbia, Nastich worked against Tito's Communists and was brought to trial despite his position in the Orthodox Church, which the Communists cuddle. Here is part of his interrogation by three half-literate Montenegrin judges...
Students in Eliot and Kirkland dropped their books and left their early suppers late Sunday afternoon to watch seven fire engines stifle smoke and stench pouring through the yard between the two Houses from refuse cans which no one claimed to recognize...
...Railway King" teamed up with great technicians like George Stephenson, spread arteries of iron through the Northeast and Midlands. Wrote the weekly John Bull: "The whole face of the Kingdom is to be tattooed with these odious deformities . . . the noise and stench of locomotive steam-engines are to disturb the quietude of the peasant, the farmer and the gentleman. ... If [railroads] succeed they will . . . destroy all the relations which exist between man and man . . . and create, at the peril of life, all sorts of confusion and distress...
...once the picture was finished, Government authorities were horrified. They were still more horrified when Signor Tamburella warned them of the publicity stench he could raise out of their refusal to allow the film's release. The authorities gave...