1. Every time you took a breath of that foul air you could feel it burning your lungs. 2. He tried to join the US Navy, but his lungs, damaged by years of breathing foul air in his submarines, disqualified him. 3. Its mood was melancholy, its skies gray, its buildings grimy and its air foul from the blast furnaces along a stinking river that trafficked in floating objects. 4. Never mind that there is no discernible public clamor for foul air, dirty rivers and iffy drinking water. 5. The foul air is most likely to trigger alarms in older detectors, which may react too quickly. 6. The foul air kills thousands of people a year and inflicts chronic illness on countless others. 7. These were once dense woods, but even the Soviet army had to move its tanks and find new camouflage as the foul air killed the tree cover. 8. Unfortunately, those are exactly the winter conditions for foul air. 9. Yet despite the noise and dirt and foul air, no one here really wants to escape them. 10. A combination of hot weather and foul air has been blamed for the deaths of five people in central Russia, a news agency reported Wednesday. |