Word: stinks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...itself. "The truth is that these were our children in the streets and the Chicago police beat them up," wrote Tom Wicker of the New York Times , after he watched Daley's cops wade into the scruffy, taunting, passionate young. The air was filthy with tear gas and Yippies' stink bombs and obscenities and a palpable, murderous rage. The American id thrashed up into view of the world. There were both gaiety and terror in the spectacle, and a sheer bizarre surprise...
Literature has gone to pot because all the great young writers and Mark Twains of today are now in Hollywood writing the Great American Screenplay. Thus novels today stink and are too caught up in the high-brow theories of our great colleges and boring to read...
...towns in the West Bank. But that is changing. Violent anti-Israel protests have rocked the territory over the past two months. Eight Palestinians, including a 17-year-old schoolgirl, and one government security agent have been killed. The smell of burning tires and gunpowder now mingles with the stink of sewage...
...students should not hesitate to complain about a lessthen-adequate section instructor and should feel no compunctions whatsoever about raising a stink and switching out. Further, we should have no qualms about asking professors to regrade exams if we doubt the competence or judgment of our graders. Professors, after all, are--technically, at least--responsible for assigning all grades...
...sprightly oldster). Then there's Nicholson. Well! He might have been rehearsing for this role ever since The Shining. If he was over the top there, he is stratospheric here. He is a beast on two legs, grunting, slavering, pawing anyone, and never mind the scratches. Does Jack stink like Daryl? No, he is gloriously rank. Sulfuric, in fact...