Word: stink
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Justice C. P. Plaxton from Toronto. Before him was a. scratch jury of miners, newspapermen, the crew of the schooner which had sailed 13 days to bring the court to the islands. From the half-tanned sealskins of the Eskimo defendants, witnesses and attentive spectators rose a sour, oily stink...
...nine months in jail for libeling an Ipswich judge in his weekly paper, ≤≤ Charles ("Mickey) Norman, who hit the front pages for his cigar smoking when he was 14 months old, turned ten. "I don't hardly smoke cigars at all any more," he said. "They stink." ≤≤ Nathalia Crane, onetime prodigy poet (The Janitor's Boy, 1924), won a scholarship to enter Fordham's School of Education. Now 28, she wants to be a schoolteacher...
...book says he was buried in 1775.) These were among more than 200 errors of fact turned up by a white-haired, peppery schoolteacher named Nell Battle Lewis, who writes a column in the Raleigh News and Observer. Miss Lewis described the whole thing as A POLITICAL STINK...
...single species of diatom, Allen found, rarely held the lead in one spot for more than ten days. The species vary greatly. Though all contain vital green chlorophyll, some diatoms and dinoflagellates are brown or yellow or red-whence the Red Sea. Other diatoms sometimes make the sea stink. In fact, diatoms probably cause the universal "fishy" taste and smell of sea creatures...
Phase II. The fight over the executive secretaryship showed clearly that the harness hasn't yet begun to fit the horses. But the great mess of the NDAC was being cleared up, as by a giant vacuum cleaner. The stink of it had apparently taken a long time to reach the President's nostrils, but now, under the indivisible fellow named Knudsenhillman - capital & labor, $1-a-year and New Deal-the confusion had at least been departmentalized, into Priorities, Purchases, Production. Filed for future reference were $1-a-yearling Ralph Budd (transportation), and three New Dealers, Harriet Elliott...