Word: fetid
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...Expiation. Henry and Annette would not have left so many letters if they had not been forced to spend half their lives apart-he, sitting in the fetid courtroom "jabbering Bengali 6 or 7 hours every day with the artful dodgers;" she, reviving her pallid children in the cool hills of Darjeeling and Mussoorie; when the children were taken to school in England both had to be separated from them. "We (excuse me dear)," wrote Henry at last, "are so old that we may not see much of our children or they of us if we wait till our retirement...
...fetid clouds arising from the dying and now dead carcass of the 79th Congress, the passage of a bill last week of the most profound importance to America and the rest of the world has been almost totally obscured from view. A bill which provides for approximately 314 million dollars' worth of international education over the next 20 years...
...destroyer Yoizuki. She was a hell-ship to match the worst of them. Sailing from Sydney last week, the reconditioned 3,000-ton Jap warship had room for only about a third of the 1,005 homeward-bound Formosans, Filipinos and Jap P.O.W.s crammed aboard her. In the hot, fetid holds there was little air, no toilets and barely enough water...
...fetid dwellings whose floors were littered with "sucklings bedded on rags and tatters" tottered howling greybeards, goats, whores, filthy children, "quadrupeds bleating . . . bipeds screaming." The crowd surged against Virgil's litter, screaming insults. "When you've croaked you'll stink like any other! Litter loafer! Money-bags...
...desert and in the fetid coastal town of Kuwait, the young giant grew up with one consuming ambition: to reconquer the lands lost by his embittered father and restore the family to its seat at Riyadh, the Sauds' ancestral city in central Arabia...