Word: sulphurous
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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That horrible smell turned out to be issuing from two sulphur bombs, commonly known as stink bombs, planted in Langdell earlier that evening by person or persons unknown. Two Circulation Desk attendants, Lawrence Corbett and Alfrado Ochoa, followed their noses and found a shoebox containing one bomb outside the door of the south entrance to the Reading Room. Soon afterwards, an unidentified law student discovered the second in a phone booth at the south stairwell in the basement...
...dealings, but the Securities and Exchange Commission has become increasingly concerned about possible abuses. Last week, the SEC threw a glaring light on the insider's role in a case that involved one of the hottest business developments of recent times: the announcement last spring of Texas Gulf Sulphur's rich mineral discovery near Timmins, Ont., which set off a stampede of prospecting and stock speculation...
...years of competition. Raised on a wheat farm, he got his start breaking horses for local ranchers, quit school after the eleventh grade to wander the rodeo trail. "Lots of times I had to hock my watch to ride." he says. "Once I set out for a rodeo in Sulphur, Okla.. with five gallons of gas from Dad's pump. I didn't have the entry fee, but a woman who owned a dress shop gave me $30 worth of pennies she had collected. I won fourth in bareback and second in bull riding, and paid that...
Still unsolved is a problem involving Curtis' Ontario timberland, which borders on the Texas Gulf Sulphur Co. copper strike. That potential asset has been tied up by a stockholders' suit charging that the Curtis directors "unreasonably and fraudulently benefited" by concealing news of the strike until they had voted themselves sizable stock options...
...single man stands like a birdwatcher, and scuffles the pepper and salt snow from a discarded, gray Westinghouse Electric cable drum. He cannot discover America by counting the chains of condemned freight-trains from thirty states . . . Across the river, ledges of suburban factories tan in the sulphur-yellow sun of the unforgivable landscape...