Word: fetid
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...week. Curfew was moved from 8:30 p.m. to midnight. Some 250,000 Moslems who, in terror of their lives, had stayed home from work for the past two months, now trooped back to their jobs. Buses were running and mailmen made their rounds. Garbage, which had accumulated in fetid piles for weeks, was again collected. Europeans sat at newly opened bars and cafes, sipping anisette and eying the passing Moslems. There was little fraternization, but at least the streets did not resound to S.A.O. bombs and gunfire...
Given the chance, the poor people would fill the vacant apartments in short order. About 85% of Beirut's 500,000 people live in apartments, many of them overcrowded. Near the fetid Beirut River and in rubbish-strewn vacant lots across the city 10,000 refugees live in squalid shacks built from flattened kerosene cans. A 1954 master plan for the city has yet to materialize, largely because of soaring land costs that have sent the price of a plot on the glossy Corniche that measures about 50 ft. by 20 ft. from...
Nowhere has the drive to rehabilitate Washington achieved more remarkable results than in the city's Southwest quadrant, from Capitol Hill to the Waterfront. The area was long a fetid slum (through it once ran bawdy old Four-and-a-Half Street, the capital's last centralized red-light district). Now the builders have cut a 550-acre swath through Southwest Washington. Some 4,657 families, most of them Negro, have been relocated. Beside NASA's new edifice, three other Federal Office Buildings are rising on Independence Avenue, and two more will be built...
...born out of wedlock"-I can only assume that the Senator does not agree with a moral code of long standing that we are our brother's keeper. In my opinion, utterance such as this not only pollutes the ''clear air of Arizona" but gives a fetid odor to America...
Kanal (Film Polski; Frankel-MJ.P.) is a cruel catalogue of the psychological terrors and physical tortures of trapped men. Almost the entire story takes place in the kanaly, the filthy, fetid sewers that coursed like petrified entrails through German-occupied Warsaw. It is September 1944, the final days of the Uprising, and the ragged remnants of a guerrilla company-waging a fruitless small-arms fight against Nazi tanks-are ordered to retreat underground. There, in sewage, they panic, drown, go mad, get lost, commit suicide and make love...