Word: seeping
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...people around them. More and more of their emotional energy becomes consumed with planning their assault and, tellingly, with what often appears to be a newfound fascination with firearms and other weapons. "The quiet is the problem," says Welner. "The anger and rage just get bigger and bigger and seep into a fantasy life, and the person becomes increasingly alienated and isolated and contemptuous...
...City is that Sam Nunn has probably gained more ground as a presidential prospect during this crisis than any other Democrat. He had a long way to go, since he is virtually unrecognized in the country, but achieving honorable stature in the power plays along the Potomac does finally seep into the national consciousness...
...That's when the darker dramatics start to seep in. Blair suddenly goes all Lady Macbeth, washing his hands obsessively, having psychotic visions of a Union Jack-draped coffin on the kitchen table, a knife-wielding Arab assassin, a dead Iraqi child. Instead of enjoying the simple pleasure of skewering a politician, we're suddenly asked to sympathize with a man whose honest intentions have been cruelly scuppered by fate and faithless friends...
Skeptics who ridicule fears over pesticide exposure are mum on the question of environmental degradation. Pesticides sprayed over sprawling corn fields in the Midwest do not magically disappear. Neither do nitrates from chemical fertilizers. They linger in the soil, and then seep into the water supply. Costs of treating water for just these byproducts are estimated at $300 million annually. And it is the consumer, not the farmer, who picks up the tab through higher water bills...
Environmental poisons never play by the rules. Just when you think you've got them figured out and rounded up, they give you the slip. Get the lead out of gasoline, and it comes at you through aging pipes. Bury waste and toxins in landfills, and they seep into groundwater. Mercury, at least, we thought we understood. For all its toxic power, as long as we avoided certain kinds of fish in which contamination levels were particularly high, we'd be fine. And not even everyone had to be careful, just children and women of childbearing...