Word: filth
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...months, the eleven men lived in filth and boredom, their bodies nourished only by a meager ration of moldy bread that the Egyptians allowed aboard and the brackish water left in their original supply. Their spirits shriveled in a never-ending monotony of card playing ("The one deck we had got shredded"), and they were continually insulted, often spat upon, by the Egyptian guards...
...have almost doubled the price of rice in the last two months. When the crowd swelled to 15,000, Dacca's police opened fire "in self-defense." The riots kept on for two days, and finally, after five rioters had been killed and two leading politicos smeared with filth by the mob, East Pakistan's nervous Governor Fazlul Huk gave in and asked the rabble-rousing Awami League Party to form a new provincial government...
...poison. One such educator was a testy Department of Agriculture chemist. Dr. Harvey Washington ("Old Borax") Wiley, who got a volunteer "poison squad" to eat spoiling food, triumphantly proved that it made them miserably sick. In The Jungle, Muckraker Upton Sinclair rubbed the nation's nose in the filth of Chicago packing plants. On June 30, 1906, Teddy Roosevelt rode to the Capitol and ceremoniously signed the first U.S. Food and Drugs Act, to protect the people's stomach from willful or careless poisoning...
Typing Hyenas. Fadeyev was ordered aboard the great Communist peace bandwagon and sent off to Wroclaw to deliver a vodka-primed attack on the U.S. There he talked of the "disgusting filth" emanating from American culture and spoke of "trite films . . . reactionary waste paper such as TIME" and American swing, a "contemporary version of St. Vitus' dance ..." Said he, speaking of the work of Writers John Dos Passos, T. S. Eliot, Eugene O'Neill, André Malraux, Jean Paul Sartre: "If hyenas could type and jackals could use fountain pens, they would produce such works." Next year, attending...
...words you quote from Herman Tal-madge's book [Nov. 14] sound vaguely familiar; Adolf Hitler had much the same feelings in regard to racial mixture. I never thought that the people of the U.S., or even of Georgia, would read even one word of such stupid filth. The best place for trash like Talmadge is the trash...