Word: excrement
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...that it is impossible to walk around in Macondo because of the empty bottles, the cigarette butts, the gnawed bones, the cans and rags and excrement that the crowd which came to the burial left behind; now is the time to lean a stool against the front door and relate from the beginning the details of this national commotion, before the historians have a chance...
...even the thousands who squatted outside on the excrement-splattered ground could consider themselves lucky. "The ones who make it to this camp are the strong ones," said Miles Harris, a British doctor. "The other 80% are dying up in the hills, too weak to move...
...expressed the attitude of many toward the mafia. A few days ago she was seen in Bogotá looking at the cover of a weekly magazine showing the dead minister's widow and two sons crying over his coffin. Said she: "Kill them, kill them! They are the excrement of our society...
Some arms-control experts speculate that the Soviets had cut down on chemical warfare because of U.S. pressure. Some scientists, however, doubt that the Soviets ever used toxic weapons in Southeast Asia. "Yellow rain," they say, was actually bee excrement. Now, these critics suggest, the U.S. is simply using a more stringent standard of proof...
...dropped the widely publicized "boe" bombshell. Meselson and his colleagues argued that the spots on leaves and rocks cited by the United States' government as evidence of "yellow rain" and chemical warfare by the Soviet Union may be nothing more than bee excrement...