Word: stinkingly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that day the Lord will take away the bravery of their tinkling ornaments about their feet . . . and their round tires like the moon. . . . And it shall come to pass that instead of sweet smell there shall be stink; and instead of a girdle, a rent; and instead of well set hair, baldness; and instead of a stomacher, a girding of sack cloth; and burning instead of beauty...
Your correspondent hardly need trouble about "raising a stink" by writing to Congress; his mental attitude "smells to high heaven" without further effort...
...here that anyone else who agrees with me will they please write their Congressman now, talk it over with others, etc., etc., and generally cause such a "stink"-yes, that's the word-that Mr. Henderson will realize he put his foot in it when he said what he did-and will be more careful in the future...
...posts be electrified so as to shock any who touched them, even to the extent of fixing the touchers to the posts, so that all could be carted down to the River and thrown in? Or perhaps best of all would be to lead tear gas or stink gas to the goal region, so that when the rabble invaded it, disabling gases would take care of them. The whole business was a disgrace to Harvard and an insult to its guests. K. G. T. Webster '93. Assistant professor of English emeritus...
...labor leaders, for a price, would cooperate in destroying competitors. That was the beginning of labor racketeering. Sam Parks, Skinny Madden, Bob Brindell, Al Capone, Tom Maloy, "Joe the Greaser" Rosenweig, "Dopey Benny" Fein, Louis Lepke, Jacob Shapiro, et aL, strewed the industrial U.S. with wrecked property, spoiled vegetables, stink-bombed theaters, ruined laundry, the bodies of innocent bystanders, of fellow goons, of banditti who opposed them...