Word: grime
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...will find in New York that] what the advance advertising did not mention was the ugliness of the fire escapes ... or the noise and grime and smell of the subways, or the scores of desolately unbeautiful cross-town streets. . . . What is true of New York is true of America itself. All of it together, the splendid, shoddy, calm and frenzied are one thing...
Last week this wretched, sleazy city was stark and rude, its colors mud-brown, grime-grey and the red of rusted iron roofing on shacks where bombed-out thousands lived. The wind, as characteristic of Tokyo as of Chicago, touched the rubble heaps, whined along the empty streets, but never quite carried away the ancient stench of fish and sewage...
...with morale; not every soldier could wash and shave every day, but some who could didn't, just to look like Mauldin characters. Replied Mauldin in effect: the only Army morale his cartoons ever hurt is in high places. After 45 minutes with Old Blood & Guts, Young Gags & Grime emerged grinning, reported last week: "I came out with all my hide on. We parted good friends, but I don't think we changed each other's opinions." Mauldin G.I.s remained unwashed, unsquelched...
...Bishop Garbett had earned the right to drink a dish of tea without a ring of Southwark's grime within the cup. He was translated to the country Diocese of Winchester. In influence the Bishop of Winchester is second in the province of Canterbury. He becomes, automatically, Prelate of the Order of the Garter. In his diocese is the big port of Southampton, whose waterside slums, though less imperial than Portsea's, were still imposing...
Already thousands of votes have been recorded-votes marked on handmade ballots yellowed with tropic humidity and desert grime: soldiers have been voting since nominations closed June 30. Out of Australia's 7,000,000 population, 820,000 men and 40,000 women are in the services...