Word: putrid
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...recipe: fox urine, a drop or two of skunk essence and glandular extracts from cats, ferrets or muskrats. Sprayed on evergreens, the Scrooge Christmas Tree Protector, at $6 per pt., raises a stink to warn off tree rustlers. If a "Scrooged" tree is moved into a heated house, the putrid perfume gets really intense. How long before the scent wears off? Says Scrooge creator Major Boddicker: "For sure, by spring it'll be gone...
...TIME readers were revolted by the ancient Chinese practice of eating healthy dogs, fattened for the table ((LETTERS, Oct. 30)). Many of those people probably enjoy crab cakes or crab gumbo, made from the scavengers of our bays, to which the most putrid bait is attractive. It is a puzzlement. I've never eaten dog, but I have eaten escargot, crawfish, catfish, alligator, rattlesnake, possum and coon...
...psychological theory, however, failed for the simple reason that now all students equate those blue books with exams, and exams with frustration, anxiety and fear. Those ugly, lined, short pages loosely pressed together with weak staples in that putrid blue color remind us all of what we want to forget--exams...
...sudden, you see a universe of green around you. The field is carpeted by some of the most verdant grass you've ever seen. Even the walls and seats are painted in a green hue, which anywhere else would be called putrid...
...constant opening of soda cans or the incessant munching and crunching of Doritos that prove to be the most bothersome. It's not even so much the festering and lingering putrid odor of semi-microwaved food eating away at your brain, just at the moment you're deepest into studying for that final exam worth 75 percent of your grade...