Word: excrementalism
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That was in the cities. In the country, he held his breath when he passed farmers fertilizing their paddies with excrement from the "honey buckets." "Mama-sans" squatted on riverbanks, pounding their washing with sticks on the wet, flat stones, while their black-haired infants slumbered on their backs. Old men with black "birdcage" hats and two-foot-long pipes squatted, low down on their haunches, in front of ruined huts. Refugees, haggard and desperate, journeyed a long road, furniture and bedding piled high on "A-frame" and head, bound for a filthy cardboard shack which they would then call...
...each author). They had been libeled, said their suits, by Post Labor Columnist Murray Kempton (named a defendant along with Wechsler and three other executives), who had reviewed U.S.A. Confidential under the title "Ordure au Lait." By the title, complained Lait and Mortimer, they had been described as "foul excrement...
...sunlight? Dr. Bruun thinks he has at least a preliminary answer. Down from the surface water, he says, drops a nourishing rain of dead and dying creatures that grew in the life-giving sunlight. They are eaten over & over by hungry, blind creatures below. But always something remains: excrement of excrement and tough organic matter that only bacteria would appreciate...
...Boards for a Bed. "I tried then to get to know something of the place wherein I was. I was already aware of much dampness and of a smell of human excrement. Guided by my nose, I drew as far away as possible from the place which I later found out was where the drains of five lavatories of the guards on five floors above me emptied themselves...
...Claus beard, who showed him a cage containing not only animals but two pretty girls. This, said the director, was meant "to illustrate the oneness of all living things." Eckstein went to Japan to write a biography of Japanese Scientist Hideyo Noguchi. He also noted that Japan smells of excrement, as Norway smells of rotten fish and southern France of urine...