Word: fumingly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...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...
...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...