Word: stenches
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...have made him a laughing stock of intelligence, surely a stench in the nostrils of the gods of the ionosphere; you have cut time into tiny cubelets . . . wherewith the occasional fine program is periodically smeared with impudent insistence...
Brazilians were not surprised to learn that their old chief disliked U.S.-style democracy. Brother Viriato had long ago tersely explained the family position: "Democracy was born, matured, ripened and died. The stench from its body pollutes the air." But the socialist talk was new. Perhaps it was a page from Peron's book, a scheme for vote-getting only...
...book is filled with the stench of dead horses and dead men rotting on the vast Ukrainian plain. Malaparte was in Jassy on the night of the pogrom when 7,000 Jews were killed in the streets. He was allowed to visit the Warsaw brothels whose girls the Germans killed after a short period to replace them with fresh victims. There are chilling pictures of the Warsaw ghetto...
...wind, laden with the stench of garbage, brought good only to golfers, who played free on the municipal course because there was no one to collect greens fees...
...drivers of the few taxis which have returned to the streets cast furtive looks at the countless charred, gutted vehicles, and will not go near the recently dangerous areas for any price. Even though most of the bodies have been taken away, the unholy sweet stench of death lingers in many neighborhoods. Streets are still stained with blood. Cows wander aimlessly through Clive Street-the Wall Street of India-stopping in the shadow of its high buildings to munch at scattered garbage...