Word: stenches
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...comes a line of bulldozers. They level anything still standing. What was once a good-size jungle becomes a desert piled with brush. Occasionally, there is an enormous explosion as "the tunnel rats," having excavated a Viet Cong burrow, blow it up. When it is all over, only the stench of cordite mingling with Cu Chi's grey dust and the drifting blue smoke of bombs lingers over the desolation. Cu Chi will not soon harbor Viet Cong again, at least...
...stench of cordite and the sour-sweet smell of tear gas?the incense of South Viet Nam's political crisis?was missing in Saigon last week for the first time in more than a month. The frail, elegant hands of the Buddhist bonze who had ignited the trouble gestured?and the mobs went home, the air cleared. The crisis itself had not ended, but its course had been changed and channeled, sometimes subtly, sometimes imperiously, by one of South Viet Nam's most extraordinary men. As a result of the power and discipline he displayed in last week's events...
itch, a manic stench...
until Sept. 1 to eliminate the sickening stench of burning bones from its chicken-rendering plant. At a Chicago convention, the American Petroleum Institute earmarked $1,800,000 for research on purer air and water next year, on top of $41 million that in dividual oil firms will spend to control pollution...
Last week, shoulder to shoulder in a line of 80, the police were still systematically advancing over the moors, plunging slender canes into the soggy peat, then sniffing their tips for the telltale stench of putrescent flesh. Near by huddled newsmen, cameramen and private ghouls who have converged on the neighborhood, jamming local hotels, emptying stores of boots and galoshes, and quite un-mystically sending auto-rental rates...