Word: cesspool
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...What's the one thing worse than spending a chilly Saturday afternoon on the Harlem 'River' (and I use that last term loosely to describe the Big Apple's rotten cesspool...
...sight belong to a few of the proctors. In fact, life in general at "the Pack" is now, by all accounts, something people are happy to talk about--a far cry from the days when residents regularly bemoaned being stranded in "the slums of Harvard," flushed away in "the cesspool of the University." In the first year since crowding forced the University to break with the past and house women in the Union Dorms, Pennypacker has pulled a startling about face, becoming a center of attention in the freshman world that used to revolve around the Yard...
...with a cut-glass clarity that is rare in rock. Unfortunately, Queen's lyrics are not the stuff of sonnets. In Death On Two Legs, Mercury hurls a series of enunciated curses: "You suck my blood like a leech ... you're a sewer rat decaying in a cesspool of pride." The song, Mercury says with a smile, shows him in "one of my docile moods...
...Your report on the 200 future American leaders [July 15] refreshed my optimism about our country after the depressing backup of the Watergate cesspool...
...arrested for burglary three times in four days before bail was set high enough to take him out of circulation. Some of the judges-like low-level jurists elsewhere-lack judicial polish and expertise. But the court has at least climbed out of the cesspool...