Word: stinks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Governor Driscoll retorted stiffly: "There is a vast difference between the stink that assails citizens as they cross the Meadows, and the industrial smells that occasionally accompany large-scale operations...
...some big cities, vast traffic jams never really got untangled from dawn to midnight; the bray of horns, the stink of exhaust fumes, and the crunch of crumpling metal eddied up from them as insistently as the vaporous roar of Niagara. Psychiatrists, peering into these lurching, honking, metallic herds, discovered all sorts of aberrations in the clutch-happy humans behind the steering wheels...
...Buenos Aires theater staged the première last week of a new Argentine movie called Barbara Atómica (rough translation: Hot-Stuff Barbara), the Catholic Action youth movement stepped out to show its disapproval. Reason: some of the mambo dancers in the movie were virtually unclad. Throwing stink bombs and shooting off firecrackers, the Catholic Action members started a rowdy uproar in the theater that ended with eleven injured, 92 arrested...
...with scathing criticisms, forced vacations, veiled threats. Then he genially invited Steed to accompany him on a trip to the U.S. where they both met President Harding and traveled as if there never had been any friction (see cut). When they returned, Northcliffe sent what the staff called a "stink bomb"-a memo charging Steed and his assistants with sins of incompetence and mismanagement...
...Wrath. In an angry, divided nation, mass meetings of protest demanded a "return to the rule of law." In Pretoria's Church Square an anti-Malan demonstration exploded into an ugly free-for-all when pro-Nationalist students bombarded supporters of the "Torch Commando" with stink bombs and rotten eggs...