Word: excrementalism
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Upon reaching Peking, the 15 young travelers went directly to the aid of Shih Chuan-hsiang, "a famous model sanitation worker" who carries night soil (human excrement), in order "to put into practice the spirit expounded in Chairman Mao's writings." They helped him haul his wares and "did minor repairs in the public toilets." Old Shih, as the Dairen youths affectionately called him, philosophized pungently: "With our night soil ladle, we shall remove all the mire remaining in society and root out revisionism to build a bright new world." As NCNA commented: "Although their hands were smeared with...
...become that not even veteran demolition men can be sure of avoiding them. Land mines lie buried in paddy trails; coconuts filled with explosives hang in jungle trees. A nylon trip wire can plunge a man onto a bed of iron spikes-or needle-sharp bamboo stakes smeared with excrement that will poison his blood. Stepping on an invisible thread can trigger a cross-bow's arrow into his chest, and stepping on a half-buried nail can pierce the detonating cap of the shotgun shell beneath his foot. The door of a village hut may be rigged...
...most basic sanitary facilities. He appealed to San Francisco's U.S. District Judge George B. Harris, who thereupon indignantly issued his circuit's first federal injunction against state prison officials. Impressed with Jordan's "clear and convincing" testimony, which vividly described cells caked with human excrement, Judge Harris saw a patent violation of the Eighth Amendment's guarantee against "cruel and unusual punishment." He ordered California to clean up strip cells in keeping with the "primal rules of a civilized community...
...brief harangue, Kim said: "I am a man of action, not words, and with action I will hand out a judgment." Whipping the lid from the can, Kim dashed over to the row of ministers seated beside the rostrum and poured the contents over their heads. It was human excrement...
...Lumley and his diggers uncovered the remains of a structure about 60 ft. by 20 ft., which contained two fireplaces. Scattered about were pieces of charred wood and the bones of rabbits, boars, Elephas antiquus (the ancestors of mammoths), deer antlers, stone carving tools, and even fossilized human excrement, which, the archaeologist says, is "extremely rare...