Word: stinks
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Japan had plenty of company. In Australia last week, residents of Sydney were outraged by an enveloping stink of rotten eggs, which turned out to be a massive belch of hydrogen sulfide. Though officials blamed the offensive odor on an oil company plant, they were unable to prosecute for "lack of sufficient evidence." Like the Japanese, though, they did begin at last to strengthen antipollution laws and enforcement measures of the kind that have lately been applied to Sydney's famous beaches, which are now fouled by a daily outpouring of 200 million gallons of sewage...
...reached, or are you free because you were draft-able on the last day of the year and your number was not reached? Admittedly this is a somewhat unlikely situation and would affect only a few people, but it raises some interesting legal questions and could create an awful stink...
...mood was ugly in New York City too (see box). A rally at Bryant Park, where some 20,000 New Yorkers had gathered peacefully, was disrupted by 100 militants. A mob of white Black Panther sympathizers rampaged through Columbia University, breaking windows and throwing stink bombs...
...defendant had made a speech in California which ended with "I'll see you in Chicago." Another was said to have suggested abducting the Chicago Chief of Police with the words, "Let's kidnap the big cheese and take him to the amphitheatre." Froines himself was charged with a "stink bomb plot." Abbic Hoffman was charged with inciting to "fornication" in Lincoln Park. "We all know Abbic," Froines said. "Abbie never used the word 'fornication' in his life...
...Thursday, the disruptions had become more violent. Numerous classroom buildings were closed down by chanting, banging on improvised noisemakers, butyric acid stink...