Word: cesspool
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...little more than an hour after Kathy's fall, a power-drill crew began to sink a shaft alongside the abandoned well. On the other side, big clamshell shovels clawed an open pit for exploration. Fifty floodlights were rushed from Hollywood studios. Volunteer workers-engineers, sandhogs, retired miners, cesspool diggers-rushed to help...
...bleak prisoner-of-war camp at Oeyama, he was vengefully nicknamed "The Meatball." He was a bespectacled, bandy-legged little man who took a savage delight in mistreating captured G.I.s. Under "The Meatball's" regime, U.S. prisoners were, often beaten, ducked in the camp cesspool, forced to work even when sick. One was clubbed into temporary insanity...
...same week Joseph Stance, health inspector of Glen Cove, L.I., was sure that what he smelled was no hallucination. More like an overworked cesspool, thought Stanco. He followed his nose to the old Maxwell estate at Glen Cove, now leased as a weekend recreation spot for Russian U.N. staffers. Stanco said that he could see a pump working on the cesspool but he could not pursue his investigation further because the Russians would not let him inside the house. "You have your laws," said a courteous comrade, "and we have ours. Your American laws do not concern...
Still it looked like a dirty way to go. And investigation by City Engineer William Jackson in 1893 vindicated the bard. Jackson's maps show 406 pollution entries into the Charles River varying from what he termed "slight" cesspool overflow to waste liquors from a gas works, "an abominable nuisance...
Hiroshima, first target of atomic bombing, was once Japan's moral cesspool, famed for its teeming whore houses and blackmailing newspapers. Now it is 60% destroyed. Said a U.S. official who knew Hiroshima before the war: "If ever a place needed to be wiped off the face of the map, that place was Hiroshima...