Word: stinkingly
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...Though the limitation of time forced the play to move so swiftly that complexities of Willie's evil drive for self-esteem were lost, it surged with the brutal power of Willie's premise: "Man is conceived in sin, born in corruption, and he passes from the stink of the didie to the stench of the shroud...
...joint maneuvers. Next day the representatives of empire received an editorial greeting from the daily Mid-Ocean News, which publishes most official notices and bears the proud subtitle of Colonial Government Gazette. The general effect of this journalistic salute was approximately what might be achieved with a rather large stink bomb at a Government House garden party; the editorial headline read simply, LIMEY, GO HOME...
Hamlet kills three men (Claudius, Polonius and Laertes) with his own hand. After stabbing Polonius in his mother's presence, Hamlet says briskly: "I'll lug the guts into the neighbor room," and cracks a joke about the corpse starting to stink in a month or so. Far from feeling queasy in matters of life and death, Hamlet shows repeatedly that he is coldly vindictive and diabolically foresighted. He not only sends Rosencrantz and Guildenstern to England with a sealed letter containing their own death warrants, but urges England's king to bump them off without warning...
...over pushcarts until harried street peddlers paid him to lay off. Payoffs got bigger later on, but essentially Johnny Dio remained a pushcart upsetter. Many a New York City 'trucking firm decided that it would be cheaper to slip a Dio mobster a few grand than to get stink bombs hurled into trucks or emery powder sneaked into motor oil. In recent years, armed with "paper local" labor-union charters obtained with the friendly conspiracy of Teamster Big Wheel Jimmy Hoffa, Dio collected wads of cash from employers in return for promising freedom from strikes, picket lines and other...
...thought that was very amusing to me, because, well, I have smelled rotten eggs, sir, and that is what a stink bomb smells like," she burbled. "Mr. Hubshman [Robert Hubshman, a Teamster slugger] and Mr. Brady [Philip Brady, business agent for the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers in Scranton] had discussed this with me, and I can't call them 'mister'-I am so used to calling them Bob and Billy and so on. Bob, he said to me, 'Wait until they try soap and water to clean that up.' Because, he said, 'Only...