Word: fume
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...custom loathsome to the eye, hateful to the nose, harmful to the brain, dangerous to the lungs, and in the black stinking fume thereof, nearest resembling the horrible Stygian smoke of the pit that is bottomless." James's obsessive abhorrence of smoking is more than matched today by members of militant groups who, to protect their lungs and nostrils, seem determined to restrict the consumption of tobacco to consenting adults behind closed doors...
...American pantheon. The reasons seem as petty as his tantrums: Yale would not give O'Hara an honorary degree, the critics curtsied to Faulkner and Hemingway but not to him, the Nobel Prize was never to be his. Successful beyond avarice, O'Hara proceeded to fume through life like the eternal arriviste...
...Jack has few reasons to fume during his current stay. He has thoroughly enjoyed being on the stump with his father. To make certain his son looks his part, the President has suggested that Jack purchase a tuxedo ("You'll be needing it now") and start teeing off, as the President frequently does, at Burning Tree golf club in Maryland. Jack has begun to taste the pleasures of such perks as flight in the presidential helicopter. Recently, in fact, Jack slung his 6-ft. 1-in. frame into the helicopter seat that is normally reserved for the Commander...
...back the environmental movement. One gives the auto industry another year (until 1977 models come out) to meet federal restrictions on exhaust emissions. Another strips the Environmental Protection Agency of its power to levy federal taxes on urban parking space after 1975 and thus to discourage driving in fume-choked cities. The third deals with some 45 power plants that the Federal Energy Office has ordered to switch from oil to coal; these plants will be allowed to burn the dirty fuel, without having to meet air-quality standards until...
...Alaska's North Slope, discoveries for several years appear to have run alarmingly far below consumption. Proved reserves have dwindled-according to the industry. The shortage has also affected air quality. Natural gas is the most environmentally acceptable of fuels, since it releases few pollutants when burned. Many fume-filled East Coast cities would be glad to pay a premium for natural gas-if only they could...