Word: noxiously
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...gold standard reminds me of a noxious little pest called the jigger which infests the coffee-growing areas of the West Indies. It enters the human body through any abrasion in the foot. It circulates with the blood and finally comes to the lower part of the stomach. There it multiplies and feeds voraciously on whatever its victim eats. In order to satisfy its demands the patient himself eats enormously of all kinds of cereals until his stomach becomes hideously distended. There is only one cure and that is to drink eucalyptus, which kills the jigger...
...What reminded Lord Beaverbrook of "a noxious little pest called the jigger...
...trouble to agree if the perplexed student is not to be further perplexed, he must take counsel with analysts of one belief or no belief at all. Since Dr. Faunce's announcement states that the appointment of "the best men of the medical profession" will save the student from noxious quacks, one is inclined to conclude that the analyses contemplated will prove utterly harmless, in fact, ineffectual. Reputable physicians and conservative psychologists are not likely to follow the uncertainties very far. The force that is lacking in their psychological advice and treatment, they will undoubtedly supply in the form...
Thus, at a mass meeting, last week, in dauntless fighting terms did President Matheus of I falz Province summon sturdy topers to rescue the winelands of the Rhine and Moselle from "the incipient necessity of their being planted with noxious tomatoes and cabbage plants...
...means. . . . If by 'Liberty' be meant the right to spit upon the symbols of Religion and of our Native Land and of the State, very well; I as Head of the Fascisti declare that this 'Liberty' shall never come into existence. . . . Fascism throws the noxious theories of so-called Liberalism upon the rubbish heap. . . . The truth, manifest henceforth to all whose eyes are not blinded by dogmatism, is that men are perhaps tired of liberty. They have had an orgy of it. Liberty today is no longer the chaste and severe virgin for whom fought and died the generations...