Search Details

Word: noxiously (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

Yeah, we've still got the noxious fumes off exit 12, the urban nightmares of Newark, Jersey City and Camden and the syringe-laden beaches of the Jersey shore. But as if that wasn't enough, it's pretty apparent now that we've been cursed with two inept sports franchises...

Author: By Anand S. Joshi, | Title: New Jersey Confessions | 5/6/1994 | See Source »

...intensified the ordinary disruption ofbeing that age, many times over," remebers DavidI. Bruck '70, a protester and then- editorialchair of The Crimson. "The images of the war hungin the air like a noxious...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Inside | 4/22/1994 | See Source »

Other manly traits, of the noxious-slob variety (emotional inaccessibility, sexual aggression, a lack of fastidiousness about lifting the seat) are ascribed to fraternity boys, the Senate Judiciary Committee and (guilt by association) males in general. People come in two models: Women (good, nice) and Men (the heavier, hairier life form...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Men Are They Really That Bad? | 2/14/1994 | See Source »

...voices for a Sylvester-and-Tweety type of animated cartoon; he loses it when the villainous cat forces the victimized bird to inhale a cigarette and Daniel insists on improvising antismoking dialogue for the sequence, so that kids in the audience clearly understand the full horror of the noxious weed. Daniel goes on to lose his marriage when he arranges to bring an entire petting zoo into his house as a birthday-party treat for one of his three children. The resulting mess is the last straw for his wife Miranda (Sally Field, expertly walking the line between long-suffering...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Looking for Mr. Goodfather | 11/29/1993 | See Source »

...make news are only a tiny part of the problem. According to a new study by the Natural Resources Defense Council, there were some 250,000 violations of the federal Safe Drinking Water Act in 1991 and 1992 alone, affecting more than 120 million people. Americans are ingesting such noxious pollutants as bacteria, viruses, lead, gasoline, radioactive gases and carcinogenic industrial compounds. "Like so many other problems that we have swept under the rug during the past decade and more," says David Ozonoff of Boston University's School of Public Health, "the national task of assuring that our drinking water...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Toxins on Tap | 11/15/1993 | See Source »

Previous | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 | 25 | 26 | 27 | 28 | 29 | 30 | 31 | 32 | 33 | 34 | 35 | 36 | 37 | Next