Word: stenches
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...reporter for a labor news syndicate, he once wrote: ". . . Capitalism in the United States is rapidly passing into the stage which has marked the decay of many earlier social orders . . . The owners exist only [as] a privileged class of parasites whose idleness and dissipation become an increasing stench in the nostrils of the people...
...World, builds his nightmare of tomorrow on foundations that are firmly laid today. He needs no contemporary spokesman to explain and interpret - for the simple reason that any reader in 1949 can uneasily see his own shattered features in Winston Smith, can scent in the world of 1984 a stench that is already familiar...
...acquired a certain affection for bad smells. They tell with considerable sympathy how smelly chemicals often save human lives. For example, when a mine has an accident, the operators often dump ethyl mercaptan (which smells like rotting cabbage, garlic, onions and sewer gas) into its air supply. The awful stench circulates quickly through every passage and forcefully warns the miners to run for their lives...
Douglas gagged at the stench and bolted for the door. Ferguson demanded: "Aren't there any health laws? Surely, we don't permit that kind of thing?" The police officer explained that eviction notices were served but seldom enforced: where would these people go? In 1946, Congress had authorized $20 million for District of Columbia slum clearance, but it had never appropriated the money. Cried Baldwin: "The smell! The smell! It's bad enough when this high wind is blowing. What must it be like in the hot summer months...
...scant hundred feet from the Senate Office Building lies a dismal little thoroughfare named Schott's Alley. Its huddled brick houses have no plumbing, heat or electricity. In summer, the stench of its outdoor privies drifts through the open windows of the apartment building where many Senate secretaries live. But few Senators know that it exists...