Word: noxious
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...organization is prima facie an affront to the university. Given the current theory and practice of American foreign policy, it seems likely that one primary use of American military officers will be to prosecute more Vietnams and Dominican Republics. In this light, the militarism of the ROTC is particularly noxious. Furthermore, the ROTC, by furnishing preferential rank to college graduates, intensifies an undemocratic situation which already confronts this university...
...noxious blue haze produced by thousands of honking, creeping cars, buses and trucks hung like fog over the city from early morning until late evening. Cinemas were packed, and hard rock boomed from juke boxes at bars like the Papillon, the Bunny and the Eden. Giggling bar girls sipped "Saigon Tea," at $1.69 a glass, while their G.I. boy friends tossed down "33" beer. The coffee shops along Tu Do Street were jammed once more, as were the city's myriad open-air markets. Saigon was coming alive, and it was the fresh prospect of peace that was responsible...
Before Lake does so, the action stops every few minutes, the screen turns a noxious color, and there appears a flashback showing how Lake got into this ghastly mess. It is in one of these scenes that Miss McNair turns up as Lake's girl Lily. No sooner has she appeared on-screen than she is writhing in St. Jacques' embrace. To make a film debut this way may have been a tactical and professional error. Except for her stylish vocalizing, Miss McNair displays more photogenic than histrionic talent, and in her first screen role she has already...
...blood. The whole is entitled "No Hard Felines." But, almost as if the Poonies felt this was too subtle a dig for its prospective readers (a subset of the readership of Life?, they talk in another part of the magazine about Life's "cute miscellany snapshot of somebody's noxious cocker spaniel wearing a lampshade on its head...
...hours before Caltech's Volkswagen bus limped into Cambridge. But the Caltech team had made the trip with fewer penalties. As a result, the adjusted finishing time was 210 hours and 3 minutes for Cal tech, 210 hours and 30 minutes for M.I.T. An ordinary auto spouting its noxious fumes, of course, would have made the trip in at least half the time...