Word: acrid
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...doses, and novelist King generally benches herself after a hyperbolic airball or two. Wisely she sidesteps the artificiality (author's choice, after all) of pivoting her story on winning or losing the big games. Her teenagers of both sexes are believably psychotic, and both locker rooms have the edgy, acrid smell of a zoo just before feeding time...
...conventional wisdom during and after the Gulf War was that it was among the worst environmental disasters in history. After all, hundreds of millions of barrels of crude oil leaked into the sands of Kuwait and the waters of the Persian Gulf or burned off into acrid clouds of choking pollution. But a newly published study has reached a surprising conclusion: while some stretches of the Saudi coastline were indeed fouled with oil, the hydrocarbons had largely degraded just four months after the war was over. Even more startling: parts of the gulf were actually cleaner after the war than...
...hospital and reservation around the mineral waters in the 1800s. The natives let a double jurisdiction grow up, and visitors to the spas were received with illegal (but openly practiced) gambling and prostitution. The local tales of Hope were traded for the legends of Al Capone carousing in the acrid steam of the bathhouses or at champagny circles around the roulette wheel...
...early primaries. Radice told a House subcommittee on appropriations that "if we find a proposal that does not have the widest audience . . . we just can't afford to fund that." At a May conference at New York City's Metropolitan Museum of Art she declared that, despite the acrid controversy over NEA policy in the arts community, "blood is thicker than water, and we have to stick together to save the NEA." This seems bound to translate into more conservative, "mainstream" funding policy, although 97 out of 100 NEA grants go to projects that have nothing to do with what...
...prewar quota of 1.5 million bbl. Vast lakes of spilled petroleum remain to be drained from the desert sands, but the Kuwait Oil Co. is already pumping 35,000 bbl. daily from those lakes. The blackened skies over the city have cleared, and the air is cleansed of acrid smoke...