Word: dung
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...mistress--she has the capacity, shallow though it is, to be happy. One of the maids has tried to strangle her, and failed; the other tries to poison her, and fails. Both, spilling lines at each other terribly quickly, hurl insults and acid pessimism and gloom--"I am the dung heap on which I grow"--at one another until finally, one of them poisons herself, having commanded the other to offer her the cup. Why such consciously doomed insects didn't commit suicide long ago is never clear...
...Flabby Giant" [Dec. 9]: it is true that India has more cattle than any other country, but those millions of sacred cows just don't produce sufficient cow dung to generate 75% of the electric power of India-furthermore, I'm sure Nehru never made such a flabby remark...
...nation's 500,000 villages there are only 300,000 schools. Per capita income is $59 a year (v. $237 in Japan, $2,013 in the U.S.). Nehru remarked not long ago that nearly 75% of the electric power generated in India is produced by burning cow dung...
...Scrollery. Today the scholars for the most part leave the search to the tribesmen, who have become highly skilled in the work. The Bedouins sift with timeless patience through four-foot layers of dust and bat dung, spoonful by spoonful, to find the tiny fragments of black and crumbly leather-often smaller than a postage stamp-that they know will make them rich. The Jordan government has given the Ta'amireh Bedouins a cave-hunting monopoly-making the Qumran area a military zone, and policing it to keep other tribes from muscling in on the scroll rush...
invited Bunny to join his outfit-the Royal Naval Division. Instead, Pacifist Bunny plumped for a corner of an English field and ended up in Surrey digging turnips and forking dung for a farmer...