Word: fetid
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Plank Burial. Waxell ordered the well to carry the sick out of the fetid hold on to the wind-ripped shore. Many of them died almost as soon as the fresh air struck their lungs; blue foxes, which swarmed over the island, ate their hands and feet before they could be buried. The living crouched in sandpits near the beach, and there-without strength to move the men who died beside them, with little food except for sea otters and seals that they were able to kill, open to all weathers, and to winds of gale force-spent the whole...
Richard William Kazmaier is one of the nation's best football players. He is also a refreshing reminder, in the somewhat fetid atmosphere that has gathered around the pseudo-amateurs of U.S. sports, that winning football is not the monopoly of huge hired hands taking snap courses at football foundries. In a day when most back-fields average 180 lbs., he is a slender 5 ft. 11 in., 171 lbs. He is a senior at a small university (3,000) that does not buy its football teams. At Princeton he has a scholarship, just as 42% of his teammates...
...supplements of newspapers remind him "of the one-sided nature of a society which sends its business leaders--not to speak of university administrators, reluctantly heeding the winter call of Florida alumni--to mend their nerves on Florida beaches while we professors inhale each other's germs in the fetid air of Widener Library...
...Mama was terrified" when Flo Nightingale announced she wanted to be a nurse. In 1845, any mother would have felt the same way. Nurses were dirty, drunken, promiscuous. Florence Nightingale would change all that as she was to change many things. British army privates in their fetid barracks, smug bureaucrats in the musty War Office, viceroys in palaces were all to feel the reach of her will and missionary zeal...
...bring the breath of honesty back to the fetid stacks, the University has suspended a number of students recently. The Deans do so reluctantly and only after consideration of each individual case, hoping that suspension will do more good than harm. It's an expensive price to pay for a book. But if the incidence of suspensions continues at the present rate, soon everyone will know a friend who has left the College for this minor crime, and perhaps both the books and the miscreants will stop disappearing...