Word: litterers
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...sows, from weakness, clumsiness or distress, lie or roll on their farrow. Sometimes they try to eat them. Sweeter to a pig farmer's ear than the ethereal fluting of the prairie lark is a sow's "pumping," the regular ugh, ugh, ugh, which means that the litter has discovered how to suckle and that the sow, heaving over with a sigh to expose her batteries of teats, has taken on the thankless task. In a fortnight the pig population on the Kuester farm may bounce from about 40 to something like...
...outskirts of the city, we put down the litter and turn back to fetch Father Superior. Most of the ruins are by now burned out. One of us remarks that the pungent smell reminds him of burned corpses...
...become midnight. We determine to remove Father Schiffer first to the outskirts of the city. Despite all precautions, our progress is stumbling. One of the bearers falls and carries the litter with him. Father Schiffer becomes half unconscious from the fall, and vomits...
...Senate caucus room, clouds of tobacco smoke curled up through the hard glare of the Klieg lights, staining the air blue. The 100 newspapermen, jammed shoulder-to-shoulder at press tables that boxed the witnesses in on three sides, like a symphony orchestra around its conductor, scribbled amid a litter of handouts, maps, yellow copy paper, overflowing ashtrays. Under the tables their shifting feet smudged their piled-up coats and hats. Off to one side were 18 radio reporters sitting along the wall; behind them were the newsreel boys, their cameras whirring monotonously...
Today he puts on a show combining the outstanding features of a waterfront goon squad and Hollywood. Generalissimo Trujillo's car sports a five-starred, solid-gold license plate. Newspapers and radio hysterically shout his praise. Statues of him litter the land. An electric sign once glittered: "God and Trujillo...