Word: stinkingly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...University of Chicago, 300 pacifist students thought they would climax a mass meeting in Mandel Hall by parading around the Midway. They paraded one block before a tiny band of students blocked their way, called them Communists (see p. 30), pelted them with eggs and stink bombs. Routing their adversaries, the pacifists chanted the Oxford peace oath: "We refuse to bear arms for our country in time...
...superb talent Caldwell has. Give him a single stink and he can create a magnificent hog wallow, a singularly appropriate gift for those...
...Putrid Stink...
...Just before the Civil War Northerners were speaking hotly of South Carolina as "that bullying State ... let the damned little thing go." Southern journalists were spiritedly responding: "Not a breeze that blows from the Northern hills but bears upon its wings taints of crime and vice, to reek and stink, and stink and reek upon our Southern plains." In 1830 the argument between Massachusetts and South Carolina in the U. S. Senate was still parliamentary, but by 1856 it had descended to murderous fisticuffs...
...Lyons denounced the Doumergue Government for "sacrificing the export trade of France to promote an impossible policy of agricultural protection." The Cabinet's failure to fulfill its pledge to reduce the cost of living and growing public distrust of the Government as the Stavisky scandal continues to stink, made many Frenchmen turn last week with pleasure if not with serious contemplation to the spirited campaign of young, untainted "Dauphin" Henri...