Word: dung
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Hutsnuwu Indians into hooch, changed hiu muckamuck, the Chinook words meaning "plenty to eat," into a high-muck-a-muck, a "person of importance." From the German gunsmiths of Pennsylvania came rifle, probably out of riffel, the word for groove. The Dutch produced koekje (cookies); and their word for dung-pappekak-eventually turned into poppycock...
While Comrade Buber worked at shoveling dung or weeding fields, her fellow inmates died around her in droves-by suicide, or of malnutrition or disease. Then one day in 1940, Stalin played his final joker on his German Communist prisoners: as a symbol of solidarity under the Nazi-Soviet pact, he turned scores of them over to Hitler, who lost no time in throwing them into concentration camps. Hardly a handful was still alive by April...
...cake of dung. Is there a slut would...
...unlikely occurrence since most of India's 176 million cow population perform the useful function of providing motive power, milk, and dung for fuel. The relatively small number of aged cattle who roam the streets and paths are cared for like beggars by the community. Their meager grass ration is no serious drain on food resources...
...pilgrim to Italy this Holy Year is sure to suffer. For the North-South gap is cultural as well as religious, and the new visitor to Italy had better know before he goes that though Florence, for example, signifies "the City of Flowers" its "characteristic smell. . . is horse-dung, its characteristic noise motorcycles and its characteristic sight [black-market] money-changers." To view the beauties of this masterpiece among cities, visitors must still, like Poet Robert Browning, nose their way through smelly, dingy streets, searching for some church or belfry embedded and lost in a garish market place...