Word: stink
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Frosty Shrouds. Heavy hoarfrost formed each night; the dead did not stink. They froze hard as stone and in the morning they were wrapped in eerie shrouds of frost...
Predicting an imminent "scandal that would stink to high heaven," he declared: "Vadal Peterson, Utah University coach, knocked down a gambler who came to his room in New York last spring and asked how much it would cost to have Utah lose to Dartmouth in the N.C.A.A. finals. . . .* Professional gamblers already have caused two boys to throw basketball games...
...Nation Could Feel Safe. . . ." The greatest flaw in Professor Oberth's gyro-steered product is its inaccuracy. Inventor Hammond dismisses current buzz-bombing as a form of "making faces, beating drums and throwing stink bombs." But Hammond, himself the inventor of a radio-controlled glider bomb, predicts that with radio devices steering the projectile from several different points to correct each other's errors, the robot bomb will become "quite dangerous." Experiments have shown, says he, that it is very difficult to interfere with radio control of a projectile; radio interference may even attract the missile...
Mary's mad, And I am glad, And I know what will please her; A bottle of ink To make her stink, And a little nigger to squeeze...
...ancient atolls - coral reefs ringing irregularly around blank and limpid lagoons. On the reef, like beads in a necklace, are occasional land masses of coral sand, large enough to support airfields and artillery installations. Hot and waterless, the Marshalls lie under the equatorial sun and dead men begin to stink very promptly. Flat and naked, the Marshall atolls have no natural protection, but how well they are fortified was indicated at Tarawa...