Word: stenches
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...When we urged that you abate the stench, you averred that your nostrils were not offended. . . . When we spoke of little children in unkempt surroundings you said-look to the state...
...which Private Schoenberner, who had hitherto been crazy about horses, was given the job of grooming them. "It is amazing how different a horse looks if seen from above, from the saddle, or from below, when you are standing ... up to the ankles in manure, half asphyxiated by the stench...
...doctors of Edinburgh Royal Infirmary were having more than their share of trouble. Young Joseph Lister, disciple of France's Louis Pasteur, was not only filling their ears with chatter about invisible somethings called "germs," he was also filling their stately hospital with the horrid stench of carbolic acid-a so-called "antiseptic," used hitherto for cleansing the Glasgow sewers...
...stark and rude, its colors mud-brown, grime-grey and the red of rusted iron roofing on shacks where bombed-out thousands lived. The wind, as characteristic of Tokyo as of Chicago, touched the rubble heaps, whined along the empty streets, but never quite carried away the ancient stench of fish and sewage...
...clergy, educators, labor unions" could walk amongst the rows of white crosses in the cemeteries; if they could see a boy die, or smell the stench of death, they could realize how fed up and tired and sick we are of seeing soldiers killed. It is up to us to prevent as many deaths as we can in the next war. This requires training for the men who will fight it-this requires conscription...