Word: befouled
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...idea may be catching, and other airlines are looking into it. The Federal Aviation Administration, under pressure from Consumer Advocates Ralph Nader and John Banzhaf III, is considering a ruling that would require the lines to separate smokers and nonsmokers. Not only does cigarette smoke befoul cabin air, which is pressurized at the equivalent of 2,500 ft.-3,500 ft. and is thinner than air at ground level, but tobacco tars have been known to gum up sensitive gyros on aircraft instrument panels...
...Americans have managed to befoul their natural resources on a scale unparalleled in history. Rivers, lakes and bays have become noxious sewers. The air over the nation's cities is infested with fumes and filth. Open green spaces are devoured by urban sprawl. Yet attempts to halt the despoliation have been, in most cases, limited and local. Last week the battle against pollution moved a long distance toward achieving national urgency...
...repressing the animal aspect of his nature (the Yahoos). In any case, the horror and tragedy of Swift's old age are clearly foretold in the leading characteristic of the Yahoos: their excessive concern I with ordure. From that time forward, scatological allusions litter his prose and befoul his poetry. On the textual evidence, it would seem that his lifelong horror of women, his refusal of all sexual contact with them, was rooted in his horror of their excrement...
Arguments four and nine both claim that UMS would befoul the morals of America's boyhood, first by subjecting youth to the "hazards of armies of occupation," and second by destroying the "democratic ideal" of "the self-reliant man, capable of making his own decisions and standing by them, alone if necessary...
...stroke of chance unveils some student who has been taking the "easy way out." If this attitude is adopted, the tutoring school may make secure the foothold which it has regained. The small sector of the student body which has succumbed to the lure of the harpies can befoul the whole College, and the time for opposing action is now. The University should use every moral and legal pressure at its command to eradicate this disease before its contamination can spread...