Word: dungeness
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...uniforms, sociable and disorderly, the sheer din of their progress driving off elephants and lions and all other wilder beasts as Toad's parade advanced. Toad surveyed the line of march with a jump of pleasure. En passant with his olive-wood walking stick, he poked cannonballs of elephant dung and judged how long ago the beasts had passed. Now and then they came upon Samburu tending herds of high-humped Boran cattle. But mostly they walked in solitude. Toad savored the wild walker's joys -- the peace of utter remoteness, the little thrill of vulnerability and self-testing...
...jerry cans on the donkeys' backs got lighter. Toad the linguist asked Lutupen in Swahili, "Wapi maji?" (Where is water?) Then after finding a few dung-fouled cattle watering holes, he learned to be more precise: "Wapi maji mazuri?" (Where is good water?) At length they fell to quarreling over water and stopped speaking to one another for hours at a time...
...does Landry respond to charges that his unwillingness to modernize his coaching style has led to the Cowboys demise? What does it mean, Tom, that the Cowboys have been relegated to the dung heap of professional football...
...psychology are heavily illustrated with dramatic events and strong imagery. To leave no doubt that Fleur is an avenging witch, Erdrich poses her in front of a boiling vat of animal skulls. A tornado lifts a herd of cattle into the air, where they resemble giant birds, "dropping dung, their mouths opened in stunned bellows." A moose is tracked, killed and butchered in a snowy wood. The warm meat is then molded to the hunter's body, where it freezes to resemble marbled blue armor...
Amidst the academic clutter of the labs, humans' decorations are interspersed with bags of monkey chow, manuscripts of journal articles, and cases of rubber gloves. One receptionist's cubicle seems to be a normal office, except for the battling stenches of disinfectant and monkey dung. And down the hall, a researcher's door bears the sober proverb, "Mortui Vivos Docent...