Word: cesspools
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Some lake! Industrial wastes from Detroit's auto companies, Toledo's steel mills and the paper plants of Erie, Pa., have helped turn Lake Erie into a gigantic cesspool. Of 62 beaches along its U.S. shores, only three are rated completely safe for swimming. Even wading is unpleasant; as many as 30,000 sludge worms carpet each square yard of lake bottom...
Adlow said that the ambiguity of "redeeming social value" saved Naked Lunch, a book he termed to be "the nearest thing to a literary cesspool ever produced...
...Chang dashed outside, where he saw a crowd by the cesspool beside the public toilet, and a peasant lying on the ground, his face blue, no longer breathing. These people were members of a production brigade of one of Dairen's suburban communes, who had heeded Chairman Mao's great call to grasp revolution and boost production, and had come into the city to collect manure...
...When one of the peasants went down into the cesspool to shovel up the manure, he was overcome by the noxious (hydrogen sulfide) gas. Poor Peasant Liu Kung-chen and another peasant went down to rescue him, but by the time he had been pulled out, both of them had been overcome by the poisonous gas and had collapsed...
...large hospital and finally renounces all her dignity. Lea becomes "It" in a series of progressively debasing games devised by Alvise. She searches frantically for a hidden ring, plays the roles of comic-book characters and chases Alvise blindfolded as he forces her to tumble into a cesspool. "You know I'll never make love to you," Alvise taunts her, but Lea's passion is so great that her nephew seduces her into the ultimate game-Mercy Killing. She cleans and grooms him carefully, knots his tie and, as Alvise watches smilingly, injects him with a fatal dose...