Word: excrement
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Bird." The man Zamperini will never forget was Sergeant Watanabe, who made prisoners do "pushups" over latrine troughs until they collapsed with their faces in the excrement, who beat Zamperini on the head until he bled, gave him bits of paper to staunch the wounds and when the blood stopped, said "Oh, it stop, eh?" and beat him again. Watanabe had a head like a frog's. The prisoners called him "The Bird...
...flaming men clawed their way through the exits, packed with crazed, dying men. Through spattering gunfire from SS machine pistols and bazookas, most of the men staggered blindly for the nearby latrine even though it too was aflame. In a last gasp of agony they threw themselves into the excrement-filled trench where SS guards shot them and clubbed them to death, their bodies sinking slowly into the filth...
...Evoe! Evoe! Dionysus!" Inhabitants of the haughty International Settlement regarded the Mission area at South Gate as a cross between the frontier and a zoo. The so-called "honey-boats" drifted slowly down the neighboring canal, carrying Shanghai's human excrement to the truck farms. The dusty road was always filled with grunting pigs on their way to slaughter. Under the willow trees old Chinese lay dozing, waiting for their daily lunch of sparrows to get stuck on the bird-limed twigs...
...Grant does not describe the smell of Calcutta, the Indian habit of throwing garbage and excrement out of windows, the children running loose with smallpox nor the more or less constant state of semifamine in some sections. But his criticisms are grim enough...
...resurrection." In practice this seems to make Editor Williams feel that unless a poem tells its readers something disastrous or resurrectional it is not a poem. His anthology contains much overwrought poetic material that could all suitably be grouped under Contributor John Berryman's observation: "Whippoorwill calling, excrement falling." But the book also contains very fine poems by R. P. Blackmur, Marianne Moore, Delmore Schwartz, others...