Word: noxiously
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...places water rose to the height of 10 feet. Hundreds, mostly Negroes, were drowned. Relief workers found the water filled with floating bodies, so decomposed that skin color was no longer determinable. One surviving family had lived on peanuts for three days. Throughout the whole region the air was noxious with fumes of decay. Immediate cremation of the dead was ordered. Quarantine of the entire district was imminent. It was a nauseous vale of murk and putrescence...
...every society, however perfected, there will always be at the bottom a noxious sediment and at the top an obnoxious froth...
...professionalism in the CRIMSON have been happier in the news columns than in the great editorial spaces". He praises the CRIMSON'S handling of the news and especially the paper's new features, such as its "confidential Guide to College Courses", but he criticizes the use of the "noxious euphemisms of the press": soccer players are invariably "booters", cross-country men, harriers", scholars, "savants". "But", says the latest commentator on Harvard's daily, "the standards of the CRIMSON'S news columns are as good as those of any metropolitan paper, and better than those of many of them...
...World War was a crime-he said so at the time and had some of his writings barred from the U. S. mails-to him, the Versailles peace settlement was an atrocity; to him, the last ten years have been a mess-an inevitable mess, resulting from a noxious disease. Last week was clearly his week and he wrote with the wrath of a decade...
...Fascismo throws the noxious theories of so-called Liberalism upon the rubbish heap. . . . Fascismo has already stepped, and, if need be, will quietly turn around to step once more, over the more or less putrid body of the Goddess Liberty...