Word: cesspool
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...when the binge ended at dawn, the diplomats, driving home, saw the corpses of the entire opposition leadership hanging in the square. With Ankara under his heel, Ataturk toured country districts announcing that Islam "is a dead and finished thing." Returning suddenly after eight years' absence to "that cesspool" Istanbul, he summoned notables to a grand ball. Before the band played a note, Ataturk himself stepped, chalk in hand, to a blackboard and for four hours lectured the jaded heirs of the Ottomans on the new, latinized language he had ordained for the republic...
...spare time, now puts that vestigial American male through his paces during a vacation. The summer house, on an island off New England, has been rented sight unseen and looks it. but Mr. Hobbs is brave in the face of basketwork furniture, a recalcitrant pump and a cesspool that backfires...
...Under Home Entertaining: "If you have a septic tank or cesspool, you need to explain [to house guests] that . . . facial tissues . . . should not be thrown into the toilet bowl...
...China white paper (in which Acheson called the Nationalist regime "a government which had lost the confidence of its own troops and its own people"). Vishinsky also quoted from General Joseph Stilwell's memoirs, in which Stilwell described the situation in China as the "Chinese cesspool" and the Nationalist regime as a "gang of murderers." Vishinsky elaborately apologized for such language: "I should not want to say one rude word in any way, shape or manner. These are the words of the commander in chief of the United States troops in China...
...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...