Word: sulphurous
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...Berryville, Va., code-named "High Point" (see "Doomsday Hideaway," TIME, Dec. 9, 1991). Airborne command posts and reinforced communications ships stood by to receive the Commander in Chief and his advisers. Congress had its own top-secret relocation center buried beneath the Greenbrier, a five-star resort in White Sulphur Springs, W. Va. Outfitted with its own Senate and House chambers, as well as a vast hall for joint sessions, the facility was code-named "Casper," and only half a dozen members of Congress knew it existed...
...even if it survived another 1000 years, it never would have. Its cars sucked. It had awful food and not enough of it. Its architecture was hideous. Its books and movies were boring propaganda. Its great artists were either emigres (e.g. Solzhenitsyn) or escapologists (e.g. Kabakov). It polluted like sulphur dioxide was going out of style. Its rulers were, almost without exception, bloodthirsty swine. Its record on human rights was laughable, its concern for individual freedoms nonexistent. All this and much worse is true...
...flock of sulphur-crested cockatoos was circling above the trees, lit up with the yellow light of a late afternoon. I never heard them in the dawn chorus, but their cacaphony announced the moving cloud of wings a full five minutes before they appeared...
...company may not be much esteemed in heaven, but, from Eve onward, mere mortals have found Satan a singularly seductive fellow -- spookily charming, mordantly funny, even sexy in a sulphur-scented way. Writers have been especially beguiled, from Marlowe and Milton to Shaw and Stephen Vincent Benet. Indeed, while putting God on display as a character is normally a guarantee of literary disaster, it sometimes seems that stories about his arch-opposite just can't miss. Presumably there is a sound theological basis for all this: virtue could hardly be considered virtuous if it were also indisputably fun, while...
...Francis Berlandi of Touchstone Environmental Consultants tested the school's air for silicone, sulphur, chloride, iron, calcium, volatile organic compounds, formaldehyde, pesticides, carbon monoxide and airborne bacteria, but according to Giroux he did not find higher than normal concentrations of any of these. However, ventilation was found to be poor, Giroux added...