Word: smelling
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THESE OVERPRIVILEGED Americans have had tremendous advantages. By the time they arrive in Cambridge they have been class presidents and National Merit finalists, and secretly wonder whether or not Jesus of Nazareth is their half brother. But they prefer to look like Indians and smell like buffalo...
...week and a half. "It was horrible," says Kasler. "All the gore was running out, and flies and mosquitoes flocked to the wound. At one point the stench became so bad that we got a piece of oilcloth to wrap around the leg to hold down the smell." His weight dropped from 167 to 125 Ibs. When he asked to see a doctor for his draining leg, he was refused...
...throws open the kitchenette window, wanting the sour smell of greens and pork to sail away on a twilight breeze. Home. Home is. No complete sentence forms itself in her irritated mind. Her mind itching in the heat and odor of close living. Home is here, here is home; and it stinks. She is alone, and her life is somewhere else...
...sleeping through the descending darkness. She does not see the lessening light which produces strange crying shadows on the walls and floor. When she awakens, she will smell rather than see the dingy orange glow. The advent of the day's hour which always bring her wandering to it's unsatisfied end. The hour of streetlights and sharp rank neon. She will smell the colors, and the time, rather than see them...
...eyes are close to blind, but she can smell the contours of the room, and knows it is familiar. She knows this room in the same way that she knows the laugh creases besides the man's brown mouth. She knows she has clothes in the closet. Why are her clothes in this closet, though? And in her mind, she cannot remember having ever been in the room before...