Word: littering
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...Saipan, nature and the bulldozer have all but covered the four-year-old litter of battle. But last week, belching fire like one of his own flamethrowers, the Marines' General Holland M. Smith scorched open an old, still angry scar. Writing with cantankerous zest in the Saturday Evening Post, "Howlin' Mad" revived his case against the Army's Major General Ralph Smith and his 27th Division, a New York National Guard outfit transferred to Marine command for the Saipan invasion...
...file grew in length and picked up momentum as it crossed Massachusetts ave., headed down Holyoke st., and snaked over the usual rally route past the Houses, leaving a sparkling litter of empty beer bottles in its wake...
...ribald remarks about her fertility with cold disdain. During the war she conducted a long and frosty correspondence in her master's columns with a Russian cat who advocated scientific speedups in kitten production. At the ripe age of 14, Sally died giving birth to one final litter in her good old hit-or-miss...
With her doom plainly forecast in the first reel, Rita is allowed to flounce from bed to worse, leaving a litter of broken taboos that the Johnston office would not permit if she were a virtuous heroine who could live happily ever after. For love of this heartless wench, men die like flies, beginning with an unctuous colonel of dragoons (Arnold Moss), and ending with poor Don José (Glenn Ford). Since wickedness does not pay, Carmen at last ends up with a knife in her own alluring torso. As the gypsy cigarette girl, Rita has a chance to spit...
During the wartime food shortage, researchers noticed a curious thing about the health of chickens. Well-housed chickens, deprived of animal-protein foods, began to droop and look sickly. Chickens living in dirty, littered henhouses did all right, even on a poor diet; but when the henhouse litter was cleaned up, they began to droop too. This was especially interesting to six Lederle Laboratories researchers who guessed that something in the chicken litter was supplying some mysterious factor the chickens needed...