Word: airlessness
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...Anthony Sampson, Wilde was arrested on the charge that he had tried to pass himself off as Chinese-which would have been a neat trick considering his entirely un-Sinic appearance. The inspector who picked him up was "charming, really charming," reported Wilde later. Less charming was the small, airless, bug-infested cell in which Wilde was stripped of all his clothes-even his glasses-and kept without food or water for 14 hours. "It was impossible to sleep," recalls Wilde. "In a cell next door there seemed to be a madman who yelled all night. It is amazing...
...outbreaks was that four of them, causing nine deaths, were from commercially packed foods. So far as was known, most cases in recent years had come from home canning of fruits, vegetables or mushrooms, which had not been adequately boiled before the housewife sealed the jar. In an airless, airtight container, the bacteria multiply and secrete what is reputedly the deadliest poison known. One ounce, it is estimated, could kill 200 million people...
...much surly as suffering, from loneliness, illness, malnutrition and exhaustion. He adds: "They are continually interrupted at whatever they're doing by people who burst into their loges without knocking, who are demanding and impolite and who sometimes treat them like subhumans. They are badly housed in tiny, airless corners and hardly ever go to the doctor because they can't afford it and can't leave...
...sisters' airless quarters with the animals, the stench becomes overpowering, but outside the smell is worse: surrounding the bobbing ark is an endless expanse of bloated, rotting human corpses. Once, the ark floats over what must have been a large city, for "the inhabitants had surfaced with much of their household furniture: there were tables, chairs, bedsteads, washtubs . . ." When the ark at last comes to rest on Mount Ararat, the twins slip away with one of Noah's grandsons, Gomer, into a lonely and devastated world...
...better than Haiti) and so afflicted by nature that the strongest hope for progress rests in a vast scheme to open up fertile eastern lowlands beyond the Andes and relocate large numbers of altiplano Indians. In the past two years, some 100,000 people have gone down from the airless plateau to new farm areas near Santa Cruz, Cochabamba and Caranavi. Over the next eight years, Paz plans to spend about $120 million on new roads. He wants to resettle 380,000 more people around hospital-school community centers, advance them tools, seed and food (eventual repayment will come...