Word: smells
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Morning found us at divisional headquarters waiting to move up. But the attack was bogging down. I trudged over, to the hospital to see the wounded. Casualties had been heavy and hospital orderlies were working fitfully among the bloody, uncomplaining bodies. The smell of the old barn and the fetid, heavy odor of sickness was crushing. I asked the director where he got his medical training. He said, "I am self-taught. I joined the army medical service four years...
...well as physical, and the beauty of the old towns, the electrifying wonder of the new industrial creations. Once he stood under the columned porch of a New England building watching the noontime traffic. Across the street a church steeple rose in the murky winter light. There was the smell of burning leaves in the air, the chatter of starlings, gulls circling over the city. "Only the people scurrying along the streets looked dead and gray and driven. They were warmly dressed, they looked well fed, but still as they passed by they looked helpless and fragile and faceless...
...rare thing for a bird or a dog to twitter, bark or glare at its reflection (see cut). But unlike most such birds & beasts, the Rydal sparrow disdains all other windows and reflectors. So infatuated is the sparrow that it utterly ignores other sparrows, despite their "auxiliary attractions of smell and song...
...freshly laundered uniform. There followed for handsome, reticent Mitch Paige three sweltering days of parades, gifts, testimonials, speeches. High moment came when the cars halted in. the small town of Versailles. Spying a grocery store, Mitch Paige excused himself, hopped out. Said he: "I just want to smell a grocery store again...
...word city hall usually evokes visions of a dingy interior with a minimum of window space and a maximum of official smell behind a façade that may combine the styles of the Taj Mahal, the Erechtheum and Ralph Adams Cram Gothic. But when Fresno (Calif.) citizens planned their city hall they decided to break with U.S. tradition. They decided that a city hall has no need of domes, pillars, Corinthian capitals or musty interiors copied from Roman baths. Last week U.S. architects were hailing the result of Fresno's decision...