Word: sulphurous
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...second most plentiful gas pollutant is composed of oxides of sulphur, produced by home, power-plant and factory combustion of coal and oil containing large percentages of sulphur. More than a tenth of air pollution consists of hydrocarbons, most of them emanating as unburned or only partially burned gaseous compounds from automobile fuel systems. Combustion also produces large quantities of carbon dioxide, nitrogen oxides and other gases...
...spawned by anxiety ("Perhaps there will be an earthquake and we won't have to take exams"). One sits at a chair and looks out the window. Cambridge does not even have the grace to be covered with snow ("What if Harry Levin actually wrote the plays of Shakespeare?"). Sulphur-laden ice spreads like cancer over the Charles and Roast Beef Specials cost 60c ("If the Atlantic rose a few inches, Boston would be devastated and there wouldn't be any exams...
...gubernatorial grumblings about the President and some of his Great Society programs became open and vocal two weeks ago during the Governors' Conference in White Sulphur Springs, where some Democratic Governors even hinted that it would be wise for L.B.J. to retire instead of running again in '68. The President reacted by issuing a quiet invitation that brought to the ranch a delegation of nine Democratic Governors, led by Iowa's Harold Hughes. Once he got them there, Johnson gave them the well-known Treatment...
Then, at a year-end meeting of the nation's Governors at White Sulphur Springs, W. Va., the talk that the President might step aside took on an uncomfortably bipartisan ring. A cloud of astonishingly bitter anti-Johnson sentiments arose from the 18 Democratic chief executives present. Blaming Johnson for defeats in November, the Governors castigated him for pressing certain unpopular and unwanted Great Society programs on the public, for displaying an insulting lack of interest in local campaigns and for letting the National Democratic Committee disintegrate into a useless organization. "Some of the people," said Illinois Governor Otto...
...candidate, a dozen moderate G.O.P. Governors and Governorselect had a secret meeting at White Sulphur Springs to look over Michigan's George Romney, currently the front runner for the nomination. Gathering in the suite of Colorado's John Love, they discussed ways to corral and keep delegates for Romney-as at least a pre-convention symbol of G.O.P. moderation if not necessarily as the moderates' most-wanted candidate. The Governors' blunt advice to Romney, whom they consider too impressed by polls and favorable publicity: he can win the nomination only by working hard from the precinct...