Word: smelling
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Darkness closed over the valley. The sky cleared after a thunderstorm. The air was fresh and sweet with the smell of clover. There was hardly a sound except the distant thunder and the most distant echo of a gun. The cattle and horses and sheep had gone and the valley seemed empty of all life. It was five minutes to eight...
...York Hospital listed medicine's weapons against alcoholism: psychiatry, vitamins, sedatives, high carbohydrate diet and, to help bring a man out of delirium tremens, glucose and insulin. He told about the encouraging results of the conditioned reflex treatment, which makes a man nauseated at the sight or smell of alcohol: 76% of one series of patients were improved...
...White Bear" answered. The little man tightened the dark scarf around his neck, tugged the broken beak of his cap over his eyes and went out into the rain. With him floated the ropey smell of cheap twist and stale beer. Snatches of conversation flickered around the low-ceilinged room...
...appeared that the Germans had sacrificed land in favor of men, and that the Russian winter campaign had done more to destroy Hitler's prestige than to destroy Hitler's force. of the three blasts of a tank siren in the opening measures. It did not smell like Virginia in the spring. It did not feel like that night in Washington when Patton said to some officers of the General Staff: "I want to fight the champ. If you lose, you've lost to the champ, and it's no disgrace...
...reported on its survey of 208 of its farm-market specialists. They found that the fear of inflation dominates 40% of all farm purchases. Other sales are routine: 56% to farmers, 38% to investors, 6% to city folk who have had a lifelong itch for cows, chickens and the smell of manure. Such purchases have boosted prices 15% since 1940; the trend is still up. There is a newer reason for buying farms now: people want to eat, and one good old-fashioned way is to grow food...