Word: smelling
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...barrage died down, but the smell of cordite hung in the air. At two seconds before 10 p.m., a crop-haired battalion commander took a soggy cigar from his mouth, flicked a switch, and called his companies: "Thanks for sticking out the war. You'll be all right now if you don't step on a mine on the way back." At the ist Marine Division, a bugler played taps. Despite the sober warnings, men dashed from their bunkers, shed their flak jackets, then stood around in little groups, talking, in a no man's land that...
...French citizenship, they began pouring into France at the rate of 30,000 a year. Arriving in Paris on the slow trains from the Midi, they drift with their bundles into the old, revolutionary districts of Belleville and Ménilmontant, where whole blocks now have the sound and smell of Algerian medinas. Only one in five of the Algerians in Paris has regular employment; the others live in the tradition of the Paris demimonde, vociferously free, but desperately poor...
GOODS & SERVICES New Ideas Unbaited Breath. For henpecked husbands-and others who don't dare smell of liquor-Merchants Distilling Corp. of Terre Haute, Ind. put on the market vodka with a dash of chlorophyll to kill any breath odor. The first 1,000 cases of green "Vodkafyll" sold out in Los Angeles in three weeks. While it works well for virtually tasteless vodka, chlorophyll is less practical in gin, Scotch...
...yesteryear-so thick, so roundly red, so pregnant with earsplitting, tooth-jarring noise? Where are the backyard skyrockets, with their colored, cone-topped heads and their delicate pinewood sticks? Where are the politicians who spoke, jowls aquiver and veins distended, on the glorious day amid the pleasantly acrid smell of burnt powder? Where are the red, white and blue floats built on flat bed-trucks? Where is the George M. Cohan roll for the player piano and the rock salt for the ice-cream freezer on the back porch...
...salmon, "the king of fresh-water fish": a garden worm that has been annointed with the oil of ivy berries. The odor is "enough to force any fish within the smell of them to bite...