Word: fetid
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that is the word -by a small cadre of Cuban advisers. They hope to whip enough "volunteers" into fighting trim to begin marching north in June before the onset of the rainy season. Griggs reports that long convoys are rolling through Addis Ababa carrying young recruits to a fetid training camp named Siga Meda, or "field of meat," west of the capital. It was formerly used for slaughtering goats, sheep and cattle for market...
...evidence of Amin's frenzied campaign was painfully clear. For 30 minutes one night last week, the sound of machine-gun fire reverberated from the fetid confines of Mugire prison, one of three sites in Kampala to which Amin's troops had herded members of the opposing tribes. One refugee who arrived in Kenya last week reported that "hundreds of soldiers and civilians" were murdered in the prison while he was there. He saw truckloads of troops, presumably Acholi and Langi, being brought into the prison and being stuffed into cells. He said that he heard no shots...
...detect the silhouette of the infamous 1-1-2 plan lurking at the sidelines, waiting for its cue?). The timing of the Administration's actions--reading and exam period securely bolting, or so they think, the doors to student concern and participation--epitomizes the slimy, macchiavellian, fetid, underhanded, unscrupulous and most questionable manner in which the Administration has traditionally managed to impose its bureaucratic wet-dreams upon the lives of those most affected by its decisions. An encouraging sign is that concerned and enraged students are organizing, under the name of Committee for a Democratic University (C.D.U.), to combat...
...between confession-going, I think of new ways to fuck, in ways as anonymous as possible, with strangers whom I'll never see again, with whom I'll never have to share what I describe in my journals as "the fetid burden of sentiment...
Cries for Mama. The men gave Ray a flashlight, then sealed off the entry hole with two steel plates. The air quickly grew fetid and hot, and suffocation became a real possibility. "There was a lot of crying and calling for Mama," Ray recalled afterward. Desperate, Ray and the seven boys piled up mattresses and, with great effort, pushed away the steel plates. Sixteen hours after first entering the pit, they squeezed out. Two hundred yards away they found the watchman, who alerted the police...