Word: stinkingly
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...Stratton aide told reporters that the governor would stay away from the dinner if Charlie Wilson showed up. Wilson, home in Michigan, insisted on going. "The girl's been propositioned," he said. "The marriage ceremony has been arranged. To call it off now would raise quite a stink." Big Ed Moore, Cook County G.O.P. chairman, quivered: "It would be an impossible situation . . . embarrassing...
...think for one minute that as I progress in this campaign that I will hesitate to take off the gloves and take them on, because I can battle, too. I can get mad, too. And when I fight skunks, I fight skunks with the same kind of stink they have...
...mail usually outnumbers the sensible mail about five to one." Woltman, veteran anti-Communist reporter and never a member of the party or anything close to it, got letters addressed to "Comrade Woltman" and "Freddy Jewish Woltman"; he was denounced as everything from a "Communist agent" to "Freddy the Stink," and accused of writing the series only because of "pressure from his bosses" and "from the White House." Said Woltman: "Except for the attacks I've been subjected to over the years from the Communists, I've never seen anything more irrational and venomous...
...Diaspora is refreshing after nothing. There is a point here, a trace of something that does not stink, a sort of negative odor that puts it above Spades." There are people who love a country, and they find it stricken, and there is a girl whose love is wider than a country. It is good that the authoress loves the country of which she writes, but there is a vapid, too-plaintive air that distracts the sympathy of the reader. "If you were born in Israel, you were a sabra, tough and tan on the outside, sweating...
...stink began to rise three months ago when a Korean confidence man named Masutomi Ito was arrested for bilking thousands of small investors of some $3,000,000 in an investment-trust racket. Swindler Ito spent part of his plunder on such delicacies as broiled eels in Tokyo and an expensive mistress in Kyoto. He admitted that he had continued to solicit funds even after his investment company had gone bankrupt, blandly told police: "If this constitutes fraud, I'm afraid there's nothing I can do about...