Word: stinks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...tiny, sun-warmed island in Wusih's Lake Tai Hu, Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek celebrated his 60th birthday with his wife and friends. He said it was the happiest day he had spent in ten years, unmarred even by the clatter and stink of the small steamboat originally chartered to pull the picnic barge to the island...
...some of these little stink bombs which Senator Saltonstall smelled. Some other equally respectable "sponsors" of the Council caught the whiff and withdrew: Harold Ickes, executive chairman of the Independent Citizens' Committee of the Arts, Sciences and professions; Judge Learned Hand of the Circuit Court of Appeals; Congressman Joseph Clark Baldwin of Manhattan; William L. Batt, wartime vice chairman of WPB; Kansas Republican Senator Arthur Capper...
...nation could not quite believe that UNO was really in danger of blowing up. The land of the airborne custard pie and the quick punch in the nose, of the goon, the stink bomb, the special deputy and the Bronx cheer had never found peace very peaceful. In the midst of their own private postwar fights over wages, rents and nylons, many a U.S. citizen saw nothing out-of-the-way in the United Nations quarrel over Iran...
York Post as a rewrite man in 1935. ne bragged that he was the first newspaperman to get "stink" into type...
Thunders Shaw: "Not a word of all this from Dr. Guthrie. ... Not a hint that ... microbes are products of the zymotic diseases; that these diseases are products of ugliness, dirt and stink offending every esthetic instinct and thus depressing the life force ... [and that] zymotic disease can be abolished by abolishing poverty...