Word: filth
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...leftists objected that the Saudi sale would violate West Germany's longstanding policy against supplying arms to "areas of tension" outside NATO. Schmidt stood firm. Karl-Heinz Hansen, an S.P.D. left-winger from Düsseldorf, went so far as to denounce Schmidt's policies as "filth...
...Communists have thoroughly penetrated right-wing organizations. Their bankrupt ideology can only grow in filth and squalor. So the more chaos the better...
...ravages of malnutrition and Kampala's almost nightly bouts of gunfire are made worse by the wreck of Mulago Hospital, once the finest in East Africa. In the wards, naked patients lie quivering on blood-stained mattresses or the filth-covered floors. The hospital frequently has no running water and stocks of drugs-known as "nurse's gold" because they so often wind up on the black market-are exhausted...
...afraid to talk even if you didn't speak English. In Europe we'd have made fun if you couldn't speak right. I thought, that's America." She looked askance at only one thing: "What got you as a European was the filth." She remembers a shiny red apple she wanted to buy. It cost only a penny. But she didn't want to break her uncle...
...epitome of Victorian respectability, Treves is a relentlessly serious man--he smiles no more than twice in the course of the film. Treves desperately clings to an ideal of social conscientiousness and obligation in the midst of the dehumanizing Industrial Revolution. As he walks calmly, briskly through London's filth and squalor, he seems almost noble. Hopkins' understated style captures Treves' interest in the Elephant Man as the doctor struggles to discern where cold scientific fascination ends and human compassion begins...