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...Pick your soap for its lathering qualities, not its smell-nobody is going to worry about your B.O. until you get back to the States...
This sentimental doggerel was published by Pravda as an inspiration to the Red Army, which with the smell of victory in its nostrils, last week was driving through the army which only three years ago was the smartest in the world...
...minutes past 8, a group of dive-bombers swung in from the left and circled back in our direction, and suddenly swooped straight for us in steep whining dives. A crash shook the earth directly in front of us, and smoke and the smell of burning was in the air. The ditch we dug our faces into was only one foot deep...
...patients' primitive rituals: he still occasionally finds scissors, hatchets and axes under their beds "to cut the pains" (a superstition something like a horseshoe over the door). But his most vivid memory, which often returns to him strangely in the midst of a delivery, is "the smell and sound of an old hog scratching his back on the sills beneath the floor" during a birth...
Wealthy ex-Smuggler Juan March (el Ultimo Pirato del Mediterráneo-also called el Yanqui), whose gold financed Francisco Franco's Fascist triumph over Republican Spain, once said of himself: "I can smell money." Now nearing 90, his nostrils are still sensitive. Last week they sensed a dismal future for the regime Juan March had helped to power...