Word: stinking
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...fetid dwellings whose floors were littered with "sucklings bedded on rags and tatters" tottered howling greybeards, goats, whores, filthy children, "quadrupeds bleating . . . bipeds screaming." The crowd surged against Virgil's litter, screaming insults. "When you've croaked you'll stink like any other! Litter loafer! Money-bags...
...Thuringia where woods and fields are green under warm spring sun. It is miles and miles of barbed wire once charged with electricity and guarded by machine-gun towers built of creosoted pine logs. It is barracks after barracks crowded with 21,000 living, breathing human beings who stink like nothing else on earth and many of whom have lost the power of coherent speech. It is gallows standing in desolate courtyards, ropes still swinging from the hooks, pillories standing in the great parade ground just beneath the main gate, where men were tied down and beaten until they blubbered...
...cover anywhere they could, because the young man in the clean black uniform might shoot them if he happened to feel like pulling out his gun. Buchenwald is a fact which has existed, on a small scale at first, for eleven years, and it is a fact which will stink through the years of history as long as generations of mankind have memories...
...Stink Exaggerated
...clear and sweet. Its odor is different from the odor of defeat in eastern China. It is as different as is the odor of the valley of the Burma Road, full of bananas, pineapples and tropical ferns, from that of the highway to Kweiyang, covered with ice and the stink of death...