Word: noxiousness
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...owners, fantastic," he says. "If any attention it gets helps me find a gallery to show in, all the better. But after a year, that'll be it-on to other things." If at that time life takes inspiration from his art, Cho's work may partially erase the noxious stain that has so long corrupted the Parisian sole...
There is nothing desirable about a tainted election. The uncertainty that hangs in the aftermath, like some noxious fume, poisons intentions and debilitates resolve. Bringing our council into the clear is no easy task. But an election commission that is both fair and harsh is a good start...
...containing the refrigerant reservoir in the bottom of the unit clipped the side of the toilet and broke off--and the liquid refrigerant came pouring out of the bottom of the refrigerator into the toilet bowl!" Fineberg says. "This seemed funny until we were nearly overcome by an incredibly noxious...
...hundreds of homes and singeing buildings at Los Alamos, birthplace of the atom bomb. The fires never came close to a building that holds drums of transuranic mixed waste and a metric ton of plutonium. No disastrous explosions occurred, but the air will be monitored for radioactivity. Meanwhile, noxious fumes wafted from the lead paint, rubber and plastics in burning cars and buildings. Some 20,000 people were evacuated from Los Alamos and surrounding towns. The damage estimates at week's end ranged from hundreds of millions to billions of dollars, with $3 million spent on fire fighting...
...Lincoln's White Dream (Johnson Publishing Co.; 652 pages; $35) that won't rile Lincoln's defenders. To start with, says Bennett, Lincoln was a crude bigot who habitually used the N word and had an unquenchable thirst for blackface-minstrel shows and demeaning "darky" jokes. He supported the noxious pre-Civil War "Black Laws," which stripped African Americans of their basic rights in his native Illinois, as well as the Fugitive Slave Act, which compelled the return to their masters of those who had escaped to free soil in the North. But Bennett's main theme is that Lincoln...