Word: fetid
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...live within the city, driving is generally out of the question. They take a taxi if they can afford and find one (increasingly difficult), or the subway-which, according to the city's design task force, is "probably the most squalid environment of the U.S., dank, dingily lit, fetid, raucous with screeching clatter." And savagely crowded at rush hour...
...church's puritanical approach to moral issues, says Kavanaugh, "the Catholic is obsessed with sex"-and he, for one, seems to be. About three-fourths of his examples of church-imposed agony involve sex; most of the cases are described in prose that might seem a trifle fetid for a true-confession magazine. At Catholic girls' colleges, he says, "to French kiss or not to French kiss is usually the question. Keeping the teeth closed becomes the ancient badge of the martyrs who refused to sacrifice to the pagan gods of Rome. She firms her lips and guards...
When Municipal Judge William S. Mathews sentenced a dozen Negro violators to a year in jail and a $500 fine each, rioting erupted in Cincinnati's workhouse, a fetid bastille built over a century ago to house Civil War prisoners. Inmates, both black and white, began hurling rotten bricks and the contents of their toilet pails (the workhouse has no lavatories) at the prison guards...
Summer is the season of rioting, when the fetid heat of the slums and the sloughs of despair combine to send minorities into the streets. So far this summer, nothing has happened on the order of the huge and destructive Harlem and Watts riots, but that is little cause for congratulations or complacency. Each week for most of the summer, the nation has been plagued by a dizzying number of simmering racial disturbances, any one of which might explode into massive proportions. Last week was one of particularly widespread unrest...
...such a proclivity for organizing is alien to impoverished Latin Americans--including those living in the fetid, disease-ridden slums that ring the major cities in Venezuela. These people have grown up under the patron system, dictatorships, and the Catholic Church and have always looked to someone higher up to get things done. By habit and disposition they are simply unable to organize projects to help themselves...