Word: stink
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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People have rushed to the stores to buy copies of the book before any legal difficulties ensue and threaten the sales, as almost happened with Lady Chatterley's Lover two years ago. "I suspect there will be a stink over Cancer," Miller noted...
FRAUDULENT FLORA is being pushed through mails by a few unscrupulous nurserymen in offers designed to lead homeowners up the garden path. The "rare and beautiful ailanthus" turns out to be the weedy "stink tree," nothing like its brochure picture; the "amazing climbing peach" produces an inedible gourd unrelated to the peach. FTC is warning nurserymen against shrubbery shenanigans...
Miss Otis favored a more active organization, one which would devote a greater effort to following up student ideas. In addition, SGA should deal with problems before they become acute. "We should handle the quieter needs that people won't make a stink about," she said...
...when we brought them back, the accoutrements were gone. They wore medals instead, and all the innocence was gone from their eyes." He learned the subtle variations of the air, how "the jungle skies of South America are lush and inviting and altogether lacking in the antagonism and elderly stink of skies over similar jungles in Africa...
They didn't. Archie Rice (Sir Laurence Olivier) may stink but he's not dead, and if he was, he'd be too much of a clot to lie down. After the show he emcees a beauty contest and then chases after the delicious "piece of crackling" who wins second prize. "All she needs," the girl's mother assures Archie, "is a little push.'' So Archie gives her a push, but not the kind her mother had in mind...