Word: noxiously
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...waning days of 1967, a noxious atmosphere pervades the nation's capital. "We are in danger of losing our sense of confidence in each other," warned Massachusetts' Democratic Senator Ted Kennedy. Said another Democratic Senator of the mood on Capitol Hill: "It's a tiredness, a frustration, an uneasiness. It's a war with no end AP in sight. It's a racial and urban problem with no end in sight. It's a fiscal problem with no end in sight. Maybe if we all get out of here, go home and listen...
...interview form is not a means of expression ideally suited to academics--at least not this one. In the first instance, it elevates a non-event into a weighty occurance. This is particularly noxious since the community is exposed only to that curious cross-section of opinion which happens to be home when the CRIMSON phones. Moreover, one finds (or at least I find) that hesitant and tentative formulation appear in print without the shades of doubt in which they were initially shrouded. And even when questions of misquotation do not arise, matters of context and meaning to do. Since...
...data transmitted back to earth from Russia's Venus 4 and the U.S.'s Mariner 5 spacecraft, scientists last week pieced together a picture of Venus as a place of unbearable heat, a dense and noxious atmosphere, and nightmarish optical effects...
Finally, there is no "captive quality" to the alleged invasion of privacy. "The mailbox, however noxious its advertising contents often seem to judges as well as other people, is hardly the kind of enclave that requires constitutional defense to protect 'the privacies of life.' The short though regular journey from mailbox to trash can is an acceptable burden, at least so far as the Constitution is concerned. And the bells at the door and on the telephone, though their ring is a more imperious nuisance than the mailman's tidings," constitute merely "peripheral assaults...
...baiting to every variety of leftist abroad, charged on nationwide television that "Communists" were rather active in the anti-war demonstrations. So were plenty of non-Communist leftists, not to mention thousands of liberal Democrats. Characteristically, the Secretary ignored events and facts that would have dulled his noxious appeal...