Word: fumes
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...November, and looks back on it now with dismay, it is encouraging to see some public demand for the resolution of Watergate." But a number of readers still thought the press was exaggerating. Said one: "A few Republicans spy on a few Democrats and you write and preach and fume about it as if it were the worst scandal in history...
...Venice is not one but three different cities. There is the historic town built on 118 alluvial islands in a lagoon, plus two other communities on the mainland: the bleak, modern residential suburb of Mestre, which the daily Corriere della Sera calls a "delirium of concrete," and the huge, fume-filled industrial port of Marghera. Any action to help Venice often turns out to harm her ugly sisters. For example, Venice is sinking in part because the pumping of fresh water from artesian wells in Mestre and Marghera depletes the underground "cushion" of water on which Venice floats...
...slur like sausage meat: ground out of the famous lips, eaten by the mike, driven into banks of amplifiers and rammed out through two immense blocks of speakers high on either side of the stage. The vowels mix stickily with the air of the auditorium, already saturated by the fume of tens of thousands of packed bodies, the smoke of 50,000 cigarettes and a few pounds of weed, forming an acrid blue vault overhead...
Every morning and evening, five days a week, commuters to San Francisco take to their cars and turn the roads leading to the city's two big bridges into fume filled alleys of torpor and noise. Last week, discarding the usual answer of building more bridges, the state's division of Bay Toll Crossings acted to attract fewer cars. As an experiment, two lanes on the Bay Bridge from Oakland were reserved for cars carrying three or more riders. Such car pools pass through its toll booths free during morning rush hours; otherwise the daily 500 fare...
...heart of Paris as well as the belly, as farmers trundled in with their bounty, chefs and grocers arrived to buy it, and prostitutes and pickpockets merged for different kinds of commerce. Such restaurants as Au Pied de Cochon, Le Pere Tranquille and Au Chien Qui Fume lured socialites in white ties as well as butchers in blood-spattered white smocks, often as the sun was rising. Left Bank intellectuals, statesmen, artists and American expatriates like Ernest Hemingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald were all habitues of Les Halles' all-night eating places...