Word: smelling
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...heard of teams not even having a smell of a chance to win a game. Well, last night at Boston Garden, the Crimson didn't even offer the Huskies half a sniff as Bob Harrison's club raced to an insurmountable 50-25 halftime lead...
...large array of stakes on which bodies are speared. When a visitor to his court showed himself to be revolted by the resulting stench, Dracula jovially ordered the man himself to be impaled, but on an especially high stake, so he could not be offended by the smell of other bodies. When two emissaries of Sultan Mohammed II neglected to take off their turbans, explaining that such was the Turkish custom, Dracula had the turbans nailed to their heads. He spitted babies on their mothers' breasts and forced parents to eat stewed pieces of their children...
...ECONOMIC progress that makes such problems possible is mainly the work of Chiang Ching Kuo, the son of the aging President, and one of the few competent leaders in this bastion of opposition to Communism. Ironically, the reforms he has instituted that have turned the economy around smell strongly of socialism...
...catcher and retrieved all the passed balls. There were boat races on nearby Crystal Lake, where the air was afume with adult cigar smoke ("One of the great disappointments of my life has been the fact that no cigar ever tasted as good as that cigar smoke used to smell there by Crystal Lake"). Of course there was a high school play. In a performance of Peg o' My Heart, Bruce was called upon by the script to kiss the heroine. He did, but in walking her home afterward, he could not nerve himself to do it again...
...legal definition of an objectionable odor? The six members of the state's air-pollution-control commission have been pondering that question, and at one meeting they even spent the better part of an hour debating whether an objectionable odor exists if no one is there to smell it. They decided that it does...