Word: cluttering
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...Yorker for items indicating that something more rich and strange than ordinary human life goes on out there. West Coast Novelist Mary Carter also argues that California, specifically Pasadena, is a special enclave within the Affluent Society -more trouble-free, less wrinkle-prone, where nothing intrudes to clutter up the sunny living space but the quick-disposal doubt...
...Democrat draws up his chair to a dented steel desk in the basement. The floor is without so much as a scatter rug, the single window has no curtain, steam pipes clutter the walls, a radiator hisses sometimes. His receptionist answers the phone, saying "Governor Rolvaag's office." The Democrat feels just fine. He may be allowed to come out of the basement very soon...
...capital gains, Kennedy's package would trim the rates but stretch out the minimum holding period from the present six months to one year. He calls for outright repeal of some special-case provisions that presently clutter the income tax forms...
There must have been more to the thirties than the residue of cliches which Clifford Odets managed to preserve. A playwright with a petty temper, an unselective ear and an axe to grind, Odets savors little cliches that clutter his dialogue ("right from the word go . . .") and big ones that blur his vision ("last week I wanted to go to Russia...
...soured; Vanguard I has become a bore and a nuisance. Its radio voice, powered by solar cells, is still on the air after 4½ years. Its reports translate to nothing more important than "Here I am." And unstoppable broadcasts, which may well persist for 1,000 years, clutter up a precious radio channel...