Word: smells
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...into the aisles was Charlie's comment as an unidentified plane zoomed overhead: "Here they come, fellows," cracked Charlie, "those yellow-belly bastards. I'll mow 'em down!" Posing behind an advanced gun emplacement, Charlie observed: "I can't see any Japs, but I can smell...
...panorama of up-moving and down-moving transport. Here the Russians have utilized everything to get stuff up: even brown, shaggy Tibetan camels are lined through the valleys. Mules in stupid groups mingle on the road, slowing up U.S.-made trucks ably driven by Red Army drivers. The strange smell of Russian petrol is mixed with horse, mule and camel manure and the natural pleasantness of the hills...
...expert as an assayer. His primary task as a publisher was to choose editors who best knew how to choose-out of the flooding hundreds of fashion ideas, from ruffles to shoes to dinner-table glassware-the fashions which had that indefinable "smartness" which he could sense, almost by smell. Then he-and they-went to work on the presentation-to "bait the editorial pages," as he once unblushingly said, "in such a way as to lift out of all the millions of Americans just the 100,000 cultivated people who can buy these quality goods...
...smell of hot oil, hot rubber, leather and sweat pervades each steel machine. To this in action is added the bitter odor of powder smoke. And when a tank stops for a moment, fumes from the noisy, thrashing engine drift forward to add to the bouquet...
...small boy in a tattered dhoti idly dawdled toe marks in the deep dust. Monsoon skies were slate-grey overhead. The oppressive heat gave added pungency to the smell of human filth in the Girgaun district of Bombay's slums. Shopkeepers moved listlessly; talk dribbled in the bazaars. Suddenly everything changed. Word sputtered from mouth to mouth that the British Raj had jailed Mahatma Gandhi...