Word: filth
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...victim of the Berlin crisis. He came from West Berlin, just at the moment the Russians were charging that it was a center for imperialist plotters. Crowed Izvestia: "It becomes still clearer that the government of East Germany acted just in time in closing loopholes for all kinds of filth which tried to penetrate in our direction...
...Chinese Reds had been boasting that since they took over the mainland in 1949, there had been no cases of cholera. Campaigns against filth helped to suppress it, but sanitation has recently been neglected. Last week, still making no admission of cholera, Radio Canton reported an all-out campaign against "seasonal diseases...
...that the Sánchez clan was typical of much in Mexican life and decided to study them in depth. The book is told by the Sánchez family themselves in the uninhibited idiom of Mexico's lower depths, which for originality of thought and richness of filth makes American-slum or Skid Row language seem puritanical and pale. But along with the four-letter words are warm passages of glistening simplicity and flights of startling insight. As each Sánchez tells of his own struggle for respect, love and individuality, the squalor fades into a natural...
...Tragedy," says the Chorus of Jean Anouilh's Antigone, "is clean"--but the play itself belies this. For Anouilh, writing in 1944, the filth of politics and administration seemed more real than the antiseptic heroics of Sophoclean tragedy. Like the Frenchmen of the day his Thebans are all preoccupied with authority and sordid disorder, a preoccupation intensified in the English language version by Lewis Galantiere's consistent use of rough American slang...
...slatternly flutter of wings, the voice of hypocrite coo, the unspeakable filth-such are the marks of the city pigeon, that most evil and cunning of birds. Fully a generation ago, a sentient woman, the Sappho of her age, sounded the alarm: "Pigeons on the grass, alas!" Yet, despite this warning, the era of appeasement of these feathered spongers has continued...