Word: stench
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Dates: during 1917-1917
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...service,--the giving of a cup of cold water, which in this case means hot coffee. I think of a typical dugout on the crest of a hard-fought hill, which we came to one evening about sunset. It was a battlefield but freshly taken from the enemy; the stench of the dead was still in the air, and the ground was torn and churned,--one horrid mass of blood-soaked earth, of twisted barbed wire and steel shell fragments, timbers and bits of concrete gun emplacements, pieces of personal clothing, shrapnel, broken rifles, unexploded bombs, rifle shells, human bones...