Word: miasmic
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Peter's efforts date back to 1703, when he began building his city from the miasmic swamps of the Neva River. He wanted to open "a window on Europe," a point of entry for the flow of Western ideas into his isolated empire. The reformist Czar hired Italian architects to design a modern European capital with intersecting avenues lined by stately homes and grand palaces...
...after the movie Man's Search for Happiness in the lower lobby in which Grandpa wades through a miasmic heaven in a white shirt, white tie, and white ducks to be united with a tearful grandmother and a white host of the saved. I went to the Esquire Theatre to see Black Velvet, a low budget stag that cost maybe forty fifty dollars in which Julie (Kim Alison) uses her behemoth body, cleverly concealed throughout in layers of underwear and oleo, to buy enough social mobility to climb from a truck stop waitress job to the high dive...
...conservatives and liberals born in 1955, operate on a system called oyabun-kobun (leader-adherent) that closely resembles the ward-based political structure of American politics in the late 19th century. In his battle to retain the presidency of the party last December, Sato had to meld the miasmic wishes of a dozen cliques in order to stave off the challenge of former Foreign Minister Aiichiro Fujiyama. He won with a hefty 119-vote margin. The "black mist" corruption charges raised by the left-charges that, in typically Japanese style, were never substantiated (TIME, Nov. 4)-did little damage...
...artillery, enough to support a U.S. brigade. The Royal Thai Air Force is soon to receive 18 Northrop-built F-5 jet fighters, while the tough Thai infantry's Garand rifles will soon be replaced with light, fast-firing Armalites, which are much better suited to the miasmic conditions of jungle warfare. Radar and reconnaissance planes will add long-range vision to the 14,000-man Thai Navy, and swift patrol boats will give the 1,500 miles of meandering coastline additional security...
...radarscope of a U.S. warship, the coastline and the fishing fleet blend into a single, miasmic blur, and no technique other than close search has yet been devised to distinguish Communist from honest fisherman...