Word: dungeness
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...While the lieutenant is wondering, he takes a long slow look at garrison life: at the startled shake-out in the rosegrey chill of dawn, at the daily dull routine of stores and stables, at the still, interminable afternoons of stunning sun, at the choking reek of dung and 'dobe and unwashed Indian, at the scrawny, decent, infrequent girls and the better-than-nothing flirtations, at the payday booze and the leering squaws and the sudden brutal free-for-alls that burst like dust devils out of the general boredom...
...mass hysteria. A simple cough is like a thunderbolt that brings on a rain of German grenades. A classical pianist plays a melancholy tune on his sweet-potato pipe and quotes Dante's Inferno as his mind ebbs away "in the lake's foul bottom, plunged in dung"-a grim elegy that unites all their fates. A sentient lover (Tadeusz Janczar) pretends "we're walking in a dark and fragrant wood," but his blonde, tough-minded mistress (Teresa Izewska) shatters the illusion tersely: "We're walking in [obscenity]." The lovers' goal is to reach...
...came to a head at a meeting of satellite leaders in Moscow last winter. Hoxha called Khrushchev a "revisionist," one of the worst epithets in the Communist lexicon, since it means not going by the book. An enraged Khrushchev shouted back: "Comrade Hoxha, you have poured a bucket of dung on me, and you will have to wash...
...living in a large rest home maintained by Punjab state died last week of malnutrition and exposure. Two M.P.s of the right-wing, ultra Hindu Jana Sangh Party related the horrible details: a thousand cattle had been crowded together at Mattewara in flimsy bamboo sheds, sinking in mud and dung until they keeled over to provide grisly feasts for vultures and jackals. Mightily embarrassed, the state government sent its director of animal husbandry flying from Chandigarh to move 100 cows from the overcrowded rest home to another cow rest home nearby...
...brother Leonid. In the fiery Matta canvases colors explode and splash, while the unearthly landscapes by the late Ives Tanguy. who was one of Soby's closest friends, are strewn with strange shapes, which led Tanguy to call one painting The Furniture of Time. The collection has a dung-colored landscape by Jean Dubuffet ("the strongest painter in postwar France"), a couple of childlike fantasies by Paul Klee ("the vigilant ally of accidental beauty"), an unusually appealing Liberation by Ben Shahn showing three small French girls swinging wildly in the air upon the liberation of France...