Word: stinks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week, back in Italy and now a right-wing Socialist deputy, Calosso was fighting the same war and still losing. At the first of a series of 20 lectures on "political literature" which Calosso is delivering at the University of Rome, a pro-Fascist student released a stink-bomb in the classroom, while others cried out: "You helped us lose the war!" Next day, as Calosso waited on a street corner for a taxi, another student stepped up and emptied a can of red paint over his head. To top it all, police stopped a girl entering Calosso...
...house in slippers and bathrobe. The fire trucks are pulling away and the chief says, "Well, if you ever need us again just give us a ring." Or the little boy lying on his bed as the governess reads a fairytale. "You mean the Three Bears raised all that stink over a lousy bowl of breakfast food...
...Harvard develops the critical sense, let this be evident in your reviews, and the musicology be damned. Let your columns be a professional oasis amid the "academic stink" of college culture. And finally, shun the sweeping positive judgments which Downes, if not Cassidy, would tremble to make. Hugh Creighten Murray...
...brought up short again when an irate citizen asked how long a nearby rubbish dump was going to be permitted to burn. The city manager, who lost his sense of smell apparently as the result of a sinus infection ten years ago, did not realize that the stink penetrated even into the auditorium. When he said: "It isn't burning-the city is operating a wet dump," new hoots of laughter arose. He looked startled again, jotted down a changed opinion of how the dump smelled...
...undergone psychiatric treatment (12%), and been divorced (13%). A few of his classmates (1%) admit to having cheated on their income tax. Another 1% have fathered illegitimate children, 5% have kept mistresses. One old grad hinted that he was an embezzler. Another served a sentence for planting a stink bomb in the ventilating system of the New York Stock Exchange...