Word: noxiously
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Ever since astronomers first analyzed the atmosphere of Jupiter and found a blanket of noxious gases thousands of miles thick, most scientists have assumed that the distant planet is devoid of life. But just because earthlings could not live there, says British Amateur Astronomer Axel Firsoff, is no reason to believe that Jupiter is not a populous place. Animals might well thrive even if their planet is covered with a limpid ocean of cold, liquid ammonia...
...imperative to distiguish Russell from the bulk of conscientious objectors, since he supported England's entry into W.W.II. He never invoked a moral absolute so his change of heart cannot rightly be held inconsistent: in 1915, war seemed more noxious than defeat by the Kaiser. Yet in 1939 he said, "I am still a pacifist in the sense that I think peace the most important thing in the world. But I do not think there can be any peace in the world while Hitler prospers...If we lose it will be hell, probably for a long time to come...
...confusion of contradictory visions of social perfection. Abraham Lincoln was dogged by the absolutistic demands of Horace Greeley, William Lloyd Garrison and Wendell Phillips, and he had more genuine charity than all of them. In the interventionist controversy preceding World War II we were confronted by a frequently noxious combination of nationalistic and perfectionist isolationism, trying to persuade the nation to remain pure by remaining irresponsible ...Some of the soberness of Catholic social theory certainly derives from its exclusion from the political realm of the yearning for the absolute...
...systems and on greater mobility and fire power for our conventional forces. Bomb shelters, being an essentially static and inflexible strategic element, could probably in the course of time generate an offensive weapon that would nullify their value. For instance, trench warfare was rendered obsolete by the invention of noxious gases. The history of arms races indicates that such a development is most likely if the prospective counter-measure, in this case perhaps of a toxicological character, appears cheaper than the defensive objective, in this case, fallout shelters. An adequately massive shelter program would cost much more money, it would...
...usefulness is ended, they often find their way-as waste-into the air people breathe, the water they drink and the food they eat. Often invisible and immune to bacteriological attack, they damage plants, kill fish, slip undetected through sewage-treatment plants, and blanket entire cities with clouds of noxious vapor. Some, like sulphur dioxide, are clearly toxic-memorably so in the five-day siege of sulphurous smog in Donora, Pa. (pop. 13,000), which struck down 5,910 and killed 18 in October 1948. Others, doctors think, may have serious cumulative effects on human health-which will not show...