Word: filth
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...major problem. It used to be primarily a disease of the oft-diapered, well-scrubbed upper-income groups, whose infants were protected against the mild (often undetectable) infections that give immunity against later and more serious attacks. Things were different with the infants of the poor, who lived amid filth, got an infection in their first few months while still protected by passive immunity from inherited antibodies. Now the better-heeled families are dutifully getting Salk shots early and often. The people at the bottom of the economic ladder have learned enough about health protection to get their babies...
...strikingly handsome that an army chaplain called him "beautiful to behold"; yet historians of the Reconstruction era have dubbed him "the outstanding figure in filth." He was cited for gallantry at Shiloh-and lived to be reviled as "Prince of Bummers." He was a devoted family man, and yet spent much of his time with another man's wife. Some $16 million in bonds, three mansions, a railroad, and countless acres of timberland passed through his hands; but the day came when he was jailed for skipping out on a $94 hotel bill. This contradictory, little-known figure...
...time, Traditionalist Noyes was sharply articulate about "that curious modern tolerance for things which ought not to be tolerated." Novelist Hugh Walpole was once kicked out of Noyes's house for suggesting to one of Noyes's daughters that she read James Joyce's Ulysses. "Filth," said Noyes, to whom the stream-of-consciousness device was nothing less than an emetic for "the entire contents of the garbage can and the sewer...
What is India? By the judgment of the Indians themselves-from Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru down to an unemployed factory manager in Gwalior-it is an empty tomb, a looted dustbin, the shadow under the lamp; it is four parts filth and one part hypocrisy, a cow-dung country inhabited by people with a cow-dung mentality. Cries one Indian youth: "There's no depth of superstition to which Indians won't sink. We worship cows and cobras. We have eight million 'holy men,' most of them naked and all of them mad. Everything...
Stones & Ecstasy. Last week, in his deep, sleepy, Godfrey-like voice, Gibson scattered pearls of wisdom from Seneca to Shaw, philosophized about unreasonable husbands, holes in pants pockets, in-laws, self-improvement, reformers and movie censorship ("Upon what kind of filth do these our censors feed, that they have become so pure?"). Though he draws on a subject file of 6,000 cross-indexed listings for his conversational ploys, Gibson never uses a script, a Teleprompter or an "idiot card," even ad-libs his commercials. He makes it a jaunty habit to breeze into the radio studio scant seconds before...