Word: burnting
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...glistening streets were a writhing mass of fire hoses. Splintered glass lay ankle deep. Gaunt, charred walls buckled in, carrying firemen on extension ladders down with them. The night air stank with acrid smells of cordite, burnt flesh, sweat. Cries of the burned, hoarse shouted commands of the firemen, and thunderous oaths kaleidoscoped into a rumble of sound. The city seemed engulfed in flame. At dawn the rosy glow of the fires gave way grudgingly to a coppery sun, picking its way through billows of heavy black smoke...
...least 350 two-ton blockbusters for Berlin alone. As in London in 1941, Berlin's fires gorged themselves for two days. Buildings had to be dynamited to stop the fire's spread. How many lay cremated under the rubble, how strong was the smell of cordite, burnt flesh and sweat, how many were without homes, kin, legs, eyes, no one could...
...evidence of the burnt hairs withered. The fingerprint which De Marigny was supposed to have left somewhere on the screen beside Sir Harry's bed became hopelessly confused with prints which might have been found later on a piece of glassware. The mystery of how the mosquito netting over Sir Harry's bed could burn without smudging the white ceiling was left unsolved. On these and many other points the Crown had seemed strangely listless. But the defense had shown the same caution, left spectators puzzling over its failure to challenge numerous alibis...
Chemist Crocker, who is pioneering a new science of the senses, works in the top-flight Arthur D. Little industrial laboratory.* In classifying his vapory perceptions, he reduces all odors to four basic ones: fragrant (e.g., animal musk), acid (vinegar), burnt (roasted coffee), caprylic (goaty or sweaty). Each is further classified in eight degrees of strength. These basic smells in various combinations make up thousands of different odors, most of which Crocker can recognize at one sniff...
What's in a Name? In analyzing smells, Crocker sniffs for each basic component, like an orchestra conductor listening for specific instruments, then describes the total effect by numbers. Thus, the Crocker description of a rose is 6423, representing the relative strength of its fragrant, acid, burnt and caprylic components, respectively...