Word: fetid
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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West Germany is desperately short of housing (it needs an estimated 8,000,000 two-room apartments). More than a third of the West Germans live in close, degrading quarters, whole families cramped into fetid, single rooms, the sick and infirm bedded beside the children. Nerves wear thin, minds grow bitter in the stifling intimacy of want. Among the demoralized, cheap vice grows weedlike and ugly. In bomb-battered Essen, one of the first businesses to recover was the red-light district: harlots' row was rebuilt while the rest of the city lay in rubble...
...teborg at 2 o'clock one morning a fortnight ago. On the way out of the harbor they hit a rock and stove in the ship's plates. Many of the mattresses got soaked. The passengers slept huddled in corners. The air was hot and fetid in the packed cabin, and drinking water ran low and thirst high long before the five-day trip to Cork was over...
...Italy. At that point the story said: "The most disturbing economic fact of [Premier Alcide] de Gasperi's Italy is the almost hopeless poverty of such people as hunchbacked Lucia Ladanca, a Potenza housewife who lives with her tuberculous husband and eight-year-old son Bruno in a fetid tenement not far from well-stocked stores...
...over 6,000 miles of ocean to reach a U.S. haven. They had weathered storms in the Bay of Biscay and off Cape Finisterre. They had traded their clothes for grapes and coconuts in Madeira and broken their steering gear in a hurricane off Bermuda. Under leaky hatches in fetid, 90° heat, their women had nursed children sick with chicken pox. After 60 days at sea, they had put in at Wilmington, N.C., and been shipped by train to New York...
...Damned? Henry Scobie, the principal character in the story, was deputy police commissioner during wartime in a tiny, fetid port on Africa's west coast. He seemed like a dull, plodding Briton; he was also a serious Catholic. Something happened to his integrity: he betrayed his professional honor, his wife, his best friend, and finally his God. At the end he decided that the only way out was suicide...