Word: filth
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...England. In its most controversial cases, Watch and Ward had been guilty of attempting to substitute the judgment of a committee of six for the considered opinions of all readers everywhere concerning the literature in doubt. When it comes to the fine difference between fifth for filth's sake, and reality for the sake of good literature, the Watch and Ward Society of 1946 once more lights its torch of emotionalism and proceeds down the glory road...
...into Palestine must end, the 1st Infantry Division threw barbed wire round the port area, patrolled its perimeter with tanks and armored cars. Early one morning Tommies and Royal Marines began transferring 1,286 refugees from two small sailing craft (popularly called "floating sewers") where they had sweltered in filth for two weeks. Like Moses, these Jews might glimpse the Promised Land, but they could not enter...
...gates when they were discovered by a little Italian corporal who saw the British boots under the faked uniforms. The gates swung shut. Soldiers swarmed out of the guardhouse. The comandante himself popped to his office window, screamed as though cut to the heart, bustled into the courtyard. "Swine, filth," he yelled at the P.W.s. "seducers, whoremongers, robbers! ... I who have been so noble,, so kind, so Christian, so hundred per cent generous with you filthy bastards. . . . And this is my reward. . . . How many got away...
...veranda of his house near the Himalayan foothills and handed his wife, Pyari, some women's dresses to hem. Said Pyari: "Isn't it enough that you should make your house a byword . . . must [you] bring your whore's clothes here? . . . Take back your filth!" Gopal Singh slapped her face. Screamed Pyari: "Why don't you shoot me? . . ." Half an hour later, Pyari was dead. Said Gopal's father: "We must say she died of cholera." Said Gopal: "She must be burned at once. ... It must be too late for a post-mortem." That evening...
Despite its loud gloom, its indecent crowding, its filth and uriniferous odors, New York City's swift, nickel-fare, 244-mile municipal subway system is the envy of other U.S. cities. This week, as every week, New Yorkers wondered...