Word: filth
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...these days even good intentions don't add up to much. Chiarelli last month had hoped to drain recruits from al-Sadr's Mahdi militia by hiring 15,000 Sadr City men to clean the district's filth-filled streets. When a truce between coalition forces and al-Sadr broke down, however, the work project collapsed. The state of the district helps explain, Chiarelli says, why "a guy in Sadr City feels there is no hope." There's sewage in his yard, he gets one hour of electricity out of six, and he has no job. "If someone offers...
This “cozy relationship?” Were Girl Scouts being forced to attend a Planned Parenthood convention? Were they being indoctrinated with pro-abortion filth? Well, no. The “relationship” became apparent when the Girl Scout organization had their logo printed on pamphlets used by Planned Parenthood’s sex-education program—yet never made any monetary contributions. But for the outraged Texans, this was a heinous offense warranting the disbandment of several local troops...
...Willie and Joe were citizen soldiers. Before their incarnation, they had presumably been peaceful citizens. Now THEY WERE VETERANS OF WAR'S HARDSHIPS, ITS FILTH, DISCOMFORTS AND AGONIZING BOREDOM. War was bad weather and soaking clothes, cold rations and no letters from home. War was mile after mile of tramping, getting just as tired advancing as retreating, sleeping in barns, bathing in icy rivers, scrounging for small comforts ... War was watching their friends die, one after the other, day after day after day. War was learning the ecstasy of wiggling a little finger just to see it move and know...
...built around the country as monuments to himself. Lt. Col. Steven Russell commands the 1st Battalion, 22nd Infantry of the Fourth Infantry Division. In numerous raids his unit conducted, in conjunction with Special Operations Forces, that targeted Saddam Hussein, he says they found mostly, "Mud huts, dilapidated houses, and filth." According to Col. Todd Megill, the 4th I.D.'s senior intelligence officer, "he was probably living like that for a while...
Bringing his work to TV was no comedown for the playwright, who is unapologetically "addicted to television," including HBO'S The Wire, The Honeymooners and "Law & Order: Sexual Filth" (his nickname for Special Victims Unit). In a sense, Angels was TV waiting to be made, an HBO drama before HBO dramas as we know them existed. Director Mike Nichols (The Graduate, Wit) notes that the plays often cut between split-stage scenes, a "very filmic" technique. "So much of it concerned dreams and magic," Nichols adds, "and those two things are very much in the realm of movies...