Word: excrementalism
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...Houphouet" is a Baule word meaning "pit for excrement." His father's parents, desperate when their first four children died in infancy, adopted the tribal custom of giving the fifth child a name indicating that he was unloved, unlovable and worthless, to divert the evil spirits that had taken the first four. The local sorcerer recommended Houphouet. "It worked," says Houphouet-Boigny, who. like all his descendants, must forever bear the name which saved his father...
...have always been a political mercenary!" cried Deputy Oscar Nájera Farfán to Deputy José Garcia Bauer in Guatemala's Constituent Assembly. "At least I am not the night chamber pot of politics!" retorted Garcia Bauer. "O piece of excrement, follow me out of this room!" thundered Nájera Farfán. In the tussle that followed, Nájera Farfán landed a solid right hook to Garcia Bauer's ear before other deputies pulled them apart...
...warren. At Indianapolis' Central State Hospital, an ancient, overcrowded firetrap within sight of the Statehouse, they found the men's infirmary as bad as any storied bedlam. The 55 patients were nearly all incontinent, and spent day and night lying naked on their beds in their own excrement. "Meals" consisted of cold slop, eaten with a spoon. None ever left the "infirmary" except to go to the morgue...
...Assassin! Thief! Piece of excrement!" they cried, as the ex-President stalked into the terminal building. There he stripped to his shorts while inspectors carefully examined his grey suit and other belongings, mindful of the fact that Arbenz and his top henchmen drew $1,000,000 in cash from the government-operated Agrarian Bank a few days before he fell.* He watched stonily while marveling examiners counted out his wife's 42 pairs of shoes. Then, with daughter Leonora, 12, and son Jacobito, 7, his wife and 16 cronies, he took off into the night sky. It was still...
...Containers for human excrement...