Word: filth
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...Asan were squalid and run-down-and in fact had been condemned a short time before the refugees arrived. At first, four people were forced to share a single blanket on a cold stone floor; few, if any, were issued mattresses or pillows. The grass outside was littered with filth, and water dripped through many of the hallway ceilings. Toilet facilities were primitive and overcrowded...
Bruce got his first big break on the Arthur Godfrey Talent Scout show doing standard impersonations. He immediately became a popular young talent because his humor was clean. Anyone could get laughs with toilet jokes; Lenny didn't have to resort to filth. But as his reputation grew, Lenny relied less on prepared bits and began talking to the audience in a sort of stream of conscience. The routines loosened up, too, becoming more frank, explosive, and hard-hitting. The first of this new genre of skits was "Religions...
...those terrible fumes were the arms of Scylla swooping down upon our noses, then the water was Charybdis, a horrifying whirlpool of slime, filth, and most dangerous of all, rapscallions on the shore waiting in ambush. There was no telling what would show up on a day's row. Once, we found a dead buck--it was unmarked so we speculated that it had fallen through some thin ice. Another time a man's body was found...
...lived on the Indian side in summertime. By three in the afternoon, the picture windows are dark with myriad blackflies whose incessant buzzing makes silence unbearable. The scourge of the summer months, these minute beasts congregate in St. Augustine to revel in the poor drainage, ubiquitous trash and human filth. Most of the Indian children are under 12, and their resistance has not yet developed. They are beseiged with impetigo--a skin disease manifesting itself in open sores all over the body. Every blackfly bite that is scratched becomes an oozing sore, attracting more flies. Relief is guaranteed only with...
Fathy, the son of an Alexandria landowner, first became interested in these clients in 1926 when his job with a government agency took him near a family property where peasants lived in stench, filth and misery. "Because the place was owned by my father, I suddenly felt terribly responsible for it all," he says. "I decided I must do something." Using the architectural training he received at Cairo's Higher School of Engineering, he decided to design decent dwelling for peasants, using locally available bricks made of mud and straw...