Word: smelling
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Rafto's roommates are not so fond of his running. "Just smell his socks, then tell what you think of him," one ribbed. But Rafto evaded the remark as he slipped out the door for his afternoon jaunt...
...vomits on a pile of typhoid-ridden corpses, against a background of mottled, dark blotches. In "Enterrary Callar" (Bury Them and Be Quiet), Goya shows a mound of bodies, topped by a weeping woman and a man covering his mouth at the sheer horror of the smell. "When the French entered the city," reports an 18th century English journalist (quoted in the excellent catalogue by Eleanor Sayre) "6000 bodies were lying in the streets and trenches, or piled in heaps before the churches." There was no longer any room in the cemeteries--bodies were flung into huge pits. Goya depicts...
...quote the Encyclopedia Britannica on Indian Summer: "The haziness of the air, the musty odor and glorious mordant coloring of the leaves, the smell of smoke from rampant fires in the dry woods and the relaxing physiological effect of the warmth following the previous cold snap all contribute to the distinctive and romantic stereotype of Indian Summer that has been cherished by generations of Americans." This is offensive? This is a slur on the Indian people? This shows "sneakiness...
...stagehands keep it filled with real junk food - Oreos, Lorna Doones, the kind of crap that Wasp mothers keep on hand for kiddie snacks. Mary with her dia betes and me with my weight problems, we used to love to open that jar and just sniff the sugary smell. We'd say, 'Oh, wow!' then put the lid back on. So that's what I did. I took a sniff, put the lid back on and had a good nostalgic...
...that has three instead of the usual two atoms of oxygen in each molecule of gas. It is formed when ordinary molecules of oxygen are ripped apart by radiation or discharges of electricity, and is most noticeable after a lightning storm, when it can be detected by its pungent smell. Most of the ozone in the air is concentrated in a layer some 15 to 30 miles above the earth, where it absorbs much of the sun's ultraviolet radiation. Trouble is, ozone is far from stable; it readily gives up one of its oxygen atoms to other gases...