Word: fetid
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...there is a government in Baghdad with sufficient legitimacy to try him. And who truly knows if Saddam?s capture will lead to a reduction of hostilities? But on one thing, everyone seemed agreed. The images, the symbolism, the semiotics of Saddam?s capture were freighted with significance. The fetid hole in the ground, the mud hut, the litter and underwear, the prophet?s beard, the unfired pistol, the tongue depressor - all, somehow, were symbolic of ... well, of what...
...urgent letter from the woman he left behind reaches the Civil War soldier ailing in a fetid hospital. "If you are fighting, stop fighting," Ada writes. "If you are marching, stop marching. Come back to me." The command has a moral authority that overrules any that General Lee could issue, and Inman must follow it. For the ultimate goal of many a warrior is to get home to his woman--to lay down his arms and find comfort in hers...
...ultraliberal House leader Nancy Pelosi, Ted Kennedy and most of the Democrats running for President. This, after a decade of Democrats pleading for just such a benefit and lambasting Republicans for blocking it. This, in the same week that Tom Daschle and George Bush joined forces to support the fetid enormity of a $31 billion energy bill, which was quickly dubbed the Hooters and Polluters Bill, since it funded, among many other things, construction of an energy-efficient Hooters restaurant in Shreveport, La. This, in the same week that Massachusetts moved toward legalization of gay marriage...
...medication and operations that removed calcified egg deposits and polyps from his body. But earlier this year, when doctors told Wang that he needed more surgery, he had to forgo it. He had no money left. Wang is not alone. Four of his neighbors who lived along the fetid stream that oozes with microscopic Schistosoma worms?the vectors are freshwater snails?have died in recent months. "The government does not care about us farmers, only about economic development," says Wang, cradling his distended belly with gnarled hands. "There's no one to protect us anymore...
John Lever runs a farm in Queensland with 3,000 crocodiles and has bagged more than 90 in the rough, including one that was five meters long. How hard could it be to trap a 1.2-meter specimen discovered in a fetid creek in an industrial area of Hong Kong's New Territories? Lever tried last week but quickly found he wasn't in Queensland anymore...