Word: stenches
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Edited by President Vargas' brother Viriato, who once editorialized: "Democracy was born, matured, ripened, and died. The stench from its body pollutes...
...Rubble. The town was a welter of muddy rubble, pervaded by the stench of dead animals and burst sewer and gas mains. Despite all efforts of Allied airmen to spare the cathedral, one bomb had pierced the roof of the Gothic choir and smashed the empty tomb of Emperor Otto III (11th Century). The U.S. troops who fought toward the air-raid shelter had been trained in the streets of a bomb-riddled town in England...
...Friday we had the last hot food. . . . The hotel basement was jammed with the wounded and the stench was terrible. Sunday was the worst day. By that time shells seemed to be coming from all directions and we were getting rather numb. . . . There were dead lying all about. At first we had managed to bury them. Later we could only cover them with blankets, dashing out between shells to do it. Snipers were so close one of the prisoners we had put into the garden was semaphoring them with his hands...
Death and Jungle Stench. After the mothers, four living soldiers stepped up to Franklin Roosevelt's desk. Their citations, like the first two, were full of jungle stench, death and the slam of explosives...
...buzzing flies, the acrid, sickening stench made a horrible fantasy that our eyes could not accept. German tank in the road. Close by it were the three charred naked bodies of it crew. Near by, a troop carrier had plunged off the road. Its headless driver was still at the wheel...