Word: fetid
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Balaguer is even planning a tourist industry along a 25-mile strip of powdery white beach on the eastern end of the island. Appalling poverty and misery still remain, of course; fetid new slums have sprung up north of Santo Domingo, and a yearlong drought in the parched, scabrous southern peninsula has decimated cattle herds...
...long straight streets of the old quarter enabled Communist gunners to knock them out from half a mile away. With only three of their original twelve APCs still operative, the ARVN troopers started the same house-to-house combat as the Marines on the other side of the fetid Perfume River...
...camp, which held only a few hundred people in 1947, now has 16,563. Unlike the first days, the people of Ein el Hilweh now see scant hope of ever returning to their homes, but they continue to live in the spirit of cruel dispossession. The roads and fetid alleys are still either choked with dust or, during the winter rains, awash in light brown mud. A few shops provide essential services-shoe repair, clothing-and the U.N.'s daily ration (1,600 calories in winter) can be supplemented at ramshackle fruit and vegetable stands. Menfolk gather, as they...
...Carolina the forces burned and suffocated him at the same time like a poisonous gas. He was in Dusseldorf after the war when you could stand at the train station and look ten miles in any direction and in Africa to see tribalism, nationalism, them, us slither into the fetid soil. Then his career in music was wrecked, and he watched that too, proud of his talent, his mission to music but still shy and afraid to stand too close to a white...
...most squalid public environment of the U.S.: dank, dingily lit, fetid, raucous with screechingclatter...