Word: stinkingly
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...When a cooking pot begins to stink, it's time to put the lid on." That was the advice the influential Tokyo Shimbun recently flung at Premier Shigeru Yoshida, 75. A government corruption scandal of Teapot Dome proportions threatened to overturn Yoshida's conservative coalition government. Everyone wondered whether shrewd, durable Premier Yoshida would be able to meet this challenge...
...days in Trumbull Park were without incident. Then, one Wednesday night as 25-year-old Don Howard sat with his son and daughter in the living room, a paving block crashed through the front window. That was the beginning. In the following weeks, more windows were smashed; sulphur stink bombs were hurled into the apartment; effigies of Negroes blazed on street corners; two neighborhood stores which sold to Negro customers were set afire; scores of fires have been set on the property of whites who refused to join the campaign to force the Negroes out; ten ugly crowds...
...where it could shine. As Cooper observes, "The immortal gift of Albert Woods was his capacity for answering [the question of how to be great] with a glorious hotheaded 'Somehow!' " In short, Author Cooper, himself a physicist hiding under a pseudonym, sets off a merry little stink bomb in the sacred precincts of High Science, as if to show that the laboratory atmosphere is not always filled with the ozone of pure disinterestedness...
...omit Youngflesh, Thickpenny, Twelve-trees, Clinkscales, Kiswetter, Diddlebock, Ramsbottom and Pigwhistle. Nor should we overlook the family who rounded out an even dozen children with Corona, but when the 13th unexpectedly appeared, he was resolutely named Ultimus Agiter. There is also the familiar but distressing case of Franklin D. Stink, who petitioned the court to be known thereafter as Harry Stink...
...power, and unsure of how to gain and hold the confidence of the people. If they are permanent, the new government will have great difficulty in adjusting to and meeting the enormously complicated problems facing it and the world, and its "odor of sanctity" will soon begin to stink...