Word: airing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...humans, using 10 per cent of the land area of the earth, and fertilizing it, represent a very big influence," he added, citing the high amounts of nitrous oxide that fertilizer production releases into the air...
McElroy discussed his recent research on the Potomac River, where as much as 10 per cent of the nitrous oxide released by the Blue Plains sewage treatment plant escapes into the air...
...firemen encountered heavy smoke and hot air explosions while fighting the fire, which broke out on the store's third and fourth floors, O'Brien said...
...Donny's theory is somewhat simplistic, summarized in the phrase "Action talks and bullshit walks." The point of this diatribe seems to be that everyone must look out for themselves. Stuart Burney's Donny seems painfully aware of this maxim, finding it distasteful, perhaps, but true. Burney lends an air of realism to his character; his Bonny is like thousands of backstreets city kids aware of the odds against them and unable to score anything more than marginal victories against the system that keeps them in place...
...degree of grunge, wear and spattering. Consequently, the presence of these figures becomes almost hallucinatory. "Speaking likenesses" that cannot speak but cannot, at a glance, be readily told apart from their spectators, they lean against the Whitney's patrician white walls or sprawl on its carpet with the air of social intruders. One reacts to them first as people, because of their verisimilitude; then, after one's gaze has gone by them-social protocol discourages staring at people as sculptures are stared at-the double take happens, and because they are in a museum they are reclassified...