Word: excremental
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...begins in late April or May, when the caterpillars first emerge from their eggs. As they finish off one tree, they swing easily to another on silken threads they secrete. Their vagabond life accounts for the name gypsy. Millions can infest a small wooded patch. As they crunch, dropping excrement and half-eaten leaves, they sound like steady rain. Some homeowners complain that the noise actually keeps them awake. The caterpillars crawl up walls, spread over driveways, drop into plates and glasses at backyard barbecues. Last month Massachusetts officials got a call from a badly flustered woman. So many caterpillars...
...romanticize work that is truly detestable and destructive to workers. But misery and drudgery are always comparative. Despite the sometimes nostalgic haze around their images, the pre-industrial peasant and the 19th century American farmer did brutish work far harder than the assembly line. The untouchable who sweeps excrement in the streets of Bombay would react with blank incomprehension to the malaise of some $17-an-hour workers on a Chrysler assembly line. The Indian, after all, has passed from "alienation" into a degradation that is almost mystical. In Nicaragua, the average 19-year-old peasant has worked longer...
...their own work assignments, and for every one to "have a lot of fun and excitement, the kids and the teachers." The children, who are never seen or heard, challenge her with their own brand of stimulation. They come in one day and cut up the goldfish and smear excrement on the school walls...
...years ago, prisoners at Maze began what is now known as the "dirty protest." They refused to wash, shave or wear clothes, wrapped themselves only in their prison blankets and smeared the walls of their cells with excrement. Since then the protest has grown to include 468 men at Maze and 26 women at Armagh...
...alternate meal plan" of' cold sandwiches and fruit after they had repeatedly flung their hot meals at the guards, Joseph Landolfi, public relations representative at Walpole, said yesterday. He said prisoners were creating safety and sanitation problems for guards by also pelting them with food containers filled with human excrement...