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Word: fetid (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Other prisoners spent their days, from 6 a.m. to 6 p.m., working on Guiana's roads, forests and plantations, their nights locked in fetid barracks. For those who rebelled, there were solitary cells on St. Joseph Island, cement pits whose only opening was an iron grille. Few inmates long survived St. Joseph. One who did was the locally famed Paul Roussenq, an ex-soldier serving 20 years for attempted arson. Paul's reputation as the ace of all incorrigibles earned him a more or less permanent home on St. Joseph. He wrote frequent obscene letters to the prison...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Gone to Hell | 9/14/1953 | See Source »

...testing the 30-odd ingredients of a perfume such as Chanel No. 5, not all the smells that waft up to the Great Nose are pleasant. To "fix" the perfume by uniting other ingredients, perfumers use such sour or fetid-smelling substances as musk, castoreum (made from beavers' testicles), ambergris (a secretion in the sperm whale intestine), and civet glands. Explains Beaux: "Pepper and salt don't taste pleasantly when taken alone, but they enhance the taste of a dish." Beaux gives each essence the nose test because some scents will last after a week of exposure, while...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BUSINESS ABROAD: King of Perfume | 9/14/1953 | See Source »

...white frame building in Ashland (pop. 8,000), Ore. one afternoon last week, some 140 people packed into seats in a low-ceilinged, fetid room 30 ft. square. Many wore bandages or held to canes and crutches. Some bore the grimace of chronic pain. But all stood up when a thin, wrinkled woman in white nurse's uniform and fancy-print apron with prominent pockets came...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Straw for the Drowning | 9/7/1953 | See Source »

...Dark. As the days went by, the prisoners, crammed in the filth and darkness of the fetid cabin, tried to make out what was going on overhead. One day they heard another boat come alongside. Several days later, they heard the anchor dropping. Later the ship got under way again. Still later, the Combinatie stopped again and another boat came alongside. On the twelfth day, the engines started again but there was no sound of scurry on the deck. Captain Van Delft shouted. There was no answer. He shouted again; no answer. At last, the prisoners were able...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE HIGH SEAS: Lucky & the Jolly Roger | 11/24/1952 | See Source »

...choice for prompt engulfment. Nor is it our sister university, Brown (which fortunately sits on a hill twelve feet high and which would be spared from the onrushing waters). It is the town's streets, which might jokingly be called its arteries of trade and commerce, its narrow and fetid alleyways which cross and recross without plan or purpose, which cry like a festering sore for the purging waters...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Trust Not Providence | 11/17/1952 | See Source »

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