Word: horridly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...bacteria from soil and sewage plants. The bugs went for the stuff like kids for peanut-butter sandwiches, gobbling most of it in a few days. Once their new detergent gets drained out of washing machines, say the ESSO men, it will not last long enough to make one horrid bubble...
...after making the list, he blows up with the plane carrying the vicar's valise. Detective George C. Scott, in a mustache that makes him rather resemble Keenan Wynn, labors manfully, and in the end tracks down the despicable arranger of the accidents and even ferrets out his horrid motive...
Never one to hold his peace when he can tell it to the papers, Harlem's Democratic Congressman Adam Clayton Powell Jr., 54, called a press conference to refute all those horrid things his colleagues were saying about him. He particularly resented a Senate speech by Delaware's Republican John J. Williams, who scorched him for his whoop-de-do European junkets and squandering of federal funds. It was a matter of racial discrimination-because he was a Negro, said the injured Powell, forgetting for the nonce that he once claimed Cherokee-white ancestry. Williams, added Powell, bought...
...inside a skull. Flesh hangs from the skull in soggy clumps. Black bags hang from the eyes like evil growths. The nose is two wormy holes. The ragged lips reveal a clutter of dirty tusks. And over the ghastly object hangs a straggle of stringy hair that looks like horrid skinny legs and suggests that on top of the skull there may be something squatting...
...vertical shafts. The walls of the test chambers are of sedimentary strata full of small pores. The irresistible pressure of a bomb's expanding fireball compresses this material, forming a spherical cavity holds its shape for 15-25 minutes; then the cooling gases lose their pressure. With a horrid noise the roof falls and all the way to the surface. With a horrid noise the roof falls, and all the way to the surface the layers of shook-up material tumble down after it. As the LASL News, house organ of the Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory, describes...