Word: fume
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Soviet military-security apparatus tried to use ominously rumbling, fume-belching columns of tanks and APCs to bring Moscow to submission, but proved no more potent than the Wizard of Oz. The communist system by last week had reached such an advanced state of debility that the brain was no longer capable of sending commands to the limbs. What most Soviets will remember about "Acting President" Gennadi Yanayev is his trembling hands as he tried to explain himself on television...
Those who believe dictionaries should not merely reflect the times but also protect English from the mindless assaults of the trendy will find that the Random House Webster's lends authority to scores of questionable usages, many of them tinged with "politically correct" views. Purists will fume, but what is worse is that such permissiveness can only invite a further tattering of the language -- and already...
...prodigality leaves environmentalists seething about the direct-mail bombardment, which consumes millions of trees each year. Conservationists also fume that the discards amount to 3% of the total clutter in the nation's landfills. And just how do they try to enlist public support? By mail, of course. The environmental watchdog organization Greenpeace USA sends more than 25 million pieces annually. Earlier this year the Environmental Defense Fund put out a direct-mail fund raiser (on recycled paper) that offered, in exchange for membership, a copy of the best-selling 50 Simple Things You Can + Do to Save the Earth...
Mention feminism and art in the same breath, and some art critics begin to fume. "The feminist movement has not come up with a single talent heretofore unknown to us," insists Hilton Kramer, the founding editor of the New Criterion, a monthly arts review. "It tells us nothing about the qualities one should be studying in a work of art." But those are fighting words to the legions of artists, critics and scholars who have devoted the past 20 years to developing a feminist critique of art history. Their efforts have virtually set the agenda for academic discussion and have...
...seized every opportunity to remind voters not only of his long opposition to offshore drilling but also of his long attachment to conservation-minded "growth management" as mayor of San Diego from 1971 to 1983. On the campaign trail he has ridden a trolley to show his support for fume-free mass transit and visited a motor vehicle factory to admire the prototype of a methanol-powered bus. At a country club in Santa Barbara -- as Republican a setting as any to be found in Southern California -- he assured a matronly audience, "An environmental ethic will pervade the administration...