Word: fetid
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...trip, which culminated in a seventh-place finish at the European Games August 23-26 in Moscow, began on the fetid waters of the Charles last Fall. In the 12 months that ensued, the Radcliffe road story took the team up and down the East Coast, to St. Catharine's in Ontario, to London and Nottingham, England, and, finally, to Moscow...
...world-traveled Radcliffe crew remains, too. Emerging like an unwanted bastard child from the shadow of Harry Parker demigod across the Charles, Radcliffe's crew program began in September and ended in August, traversing the entire eastern seaboard and extending during the humid and oppressive summer months from the fetid, unpalatable and wretched Charles River waters to the ancient, mysterious, and tradition-laden hinterland of Europe: Moscow, Bursting from its oblivion-ridden past with the dazzle of a resurrected phoenix, though never resurrected, not even dead because it was born for the first and only time two short and immeasurable...
...British monarch presiding over the largest empire in history. Her personality-dominated by Albert-affected nearly all the great events of the 19th century, from the revolutions of 1848 to Britain's brave bungling in the Crimea. But when Albert died in 1861-of typhoid fever, from the fetid drains of Windsor Castle-she was left in an almost unimaginable isolation. "The words on all lips," runs the last sentence of Woodham-Smith's book, "the feelings in all hearts were: 'What is going to happen now to the poor Queen?'" One waits for Volume...
Canton itself has a 19th century appearance. The houses and factories and warehouses are packed together in unplanned gray proximity; the skyline of low roofs is broken only by scores of factory chimneys pouring out smoke into the fetid air. It could be a daguerreotype of industrial Liverpool, except that the Pearl River is alive with sampans and junks...
...refugees who stayed on in Hué found spots on the grassy banks of the Perfume River if they were lucky, in fetid vacant buildings if they were not. "Highway 1 is the setting for this Asian Grapes of Wrath,"' reported TIME Correspondent David DeVoss. "Some families ride atop trucks, others are jammed as many as five to a Honda, but most of them walk. Exhaustion, hunger and heat are not the only enemies they face. Land mines, carefully planted each night by the North Vietnamese, take their daily toll in suffering...