Word: noxiousness
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...devastation, however, the long-range effects-if St. Helens does not explode again-are likely to be less drastic than was at first feared. Great though its force was, the explosion was not so powerful as many volcanic eruptions of the past, nor did it spill out gases as noxious as those released by the more famous killer eruptions of history. Scientists predicted that St. Helens will cause little long-range damage to human health and the world's climate...
Training of S.A.S. recruits-all volunteers from other British army regiments-is exceedingly rigorous. The initial four-week selection course has a 90% failure rate. For starters, recruits are sent crawling through noxious sheep-dips and marching over mountainous terrain in Wales carrying 55-lb. backpacks on a 37%-mile, 20-hr, trek. In one ten-day exercise, half-naked recruits are set down at the mouth of a Welsh valley, harried by deafening sirens and an infantry force firing real bullets. Those who pass these tests are then taught such skills as demolition, lock picking, sabotage, unarmed combat, mountaineering...
...leak in a valve in the air conditioning system in the Gutman library spewed noxious fumes throughout the building over the weekend, causing headaches and vomiting and necessitating the evacuation of the building for more than an hour on Tuesday...
Inabeth Miller, a librarian at Gutman, ordered the evacuation of the building on Tuesday. "The fumes had been building up for days--it was a very noxious odor--and I wanted to make sure that nothing serious happened," she said...
AMERICAN GIGOLO sizzles in Paul Schrader's panning camera, exuding the noxious odor of a raw, sandy strip of Canadian bacon. Dripping of fat, California oozes like a wet silkscreen across a blank matte, uninhibited, rubber-spun, Midasized. California as a deathly seducer, California as a golden road to Luke's Body Shop, California as a white and fiery sale for polished, antique organs--Schrader takes no chances. He plays fixed checkers, hopping from red to black, focusing where the sun shines. But American Gigolo dies even as a mere California movie because it doesn't know where...