Word: cesspools
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...around his elbows were tightened until his shoulder blades slowly jammed into his spine. "At that moment," he remembers, "I would have thrown my kids into a fire to make it stop." Guttersen was on his knees and felt "psychically dirty, like I'd been swimming in a cesspool" and feared he might give up secrets about clandestine intelligence operations. He decided to try to kill himself by running headfirst at the blood-spattered torture room wall. Then a guard hit him and sent him flying at the wall, where he saw KEEP THE FAITH, BABY scratched...
...shouts, "Long live the Communist Party! Long live Chairman Mao!" Another less innocent victim is Jen Hsiu-lan, a proud, fanatical woman revolutionary who loses out in one of the revolution's murky factional twists. Rather than submit to the humiliation of selfcriticism, she drowns herself in a cesspool...
...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...