Word: soots
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Yeah, I seen yarounda campus lookingood, an I wanna getcha pickcha ina bathin soot...
...wintry mornings, when the sun burns off the pearl and filthy mist, Fuji still soars beyond the freeway. And every week a dozen tank cars rumble through the pine grove of the Imperial Palace, hosing dust and soot from the drooping needles. The harbor itself, and the once limpid Sumida River where warrior-poets repaired, are now thick with wastes-both human and industrial. Yet there is scarcely a resident of Tokyo who could not compose a stately, sympathetic waka in the shade of his humble eaves...
...building distinction. Says Bernard Vitry, who directed the cleaning of the Madeleine: "I love stone too much not to wish to see it." Malraux says that art is "the presence in our lives of what should belong to death," and holds that classic buildings cloaked in mantles of soot are deadened, if not dead. To look on beauty bare, as it is emerging in Paris, is to see what is agelessly and vibrantly alive, what T. S. Eliot called "the present moment of the past...
...smoke and fumes escape into the air. These measures did some good. For one thing, they changed the color and character of the smog. Los Angeles smog is still maddeningly irritating to the eyes, but now, at least it is "clean," a glaring whitish color with practically no soot or smoke particles...
...spite of the banishment of smoke and soot, Los Angeles smog has grown progressively worse, and the same kind of air pollution has appeared in other parts of California. Chemist Philip A. Leighton of Stanford University believes that unless something drastic is done, smog will soon shroud most of the inhabited parts of the state. Other even gloomier prophets foresee a California unfit for human life...