Word: mucking
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Being "sent down," or Xiafang, as the Chinese call it, was very simple punishment. "Stinking intellectuals" were supposed to learn from the peasants what life is like when one must stoop for hours transplanting rice seedlings in the wet muck. Horror stories spurt ? not grisly horror like eye gouging (which was reported only in south China), but simpler torment like being interrogated round the clock by Red Guards...
...career. Privately, he is in despair. His lifelong search for truth, for a logical edifice that will support the notion of morality, has arrived at a culdesac. He now admits that "at the bottom, which isn't very far down, it's all rubble, jumble. Not even muck but jumble...
...more in Farmington, 17 miles north of Salt Lake City, and sending a Mormon volunteer brigade into action. Last week 15 volunteers spent an entire day cleaning out the mud-filled basement of Paul Ward, 64. They threw watermelon-size rocks onto a conveyor belt and pushed buckets of muck through a cellar window to a team of 20 men, women and children, who passed the pails from hand to hand. Says a grateful Ward: "I wasn't expecting anybody to come help. They just showed up and started working...
...last week some highly toxic public muck was flying in Waste Management's direction, and some of it seemed to be sticking. Former employees, including two who left to work for competitors and a third who was fired, charged that dangerous materials had been handled carelessly or even illegally. The attorney general of Illinois filed a $1.1 million lawsuit charging that 400,000 gal. of waste containing a potent carcinogen associated with dye manufacturing had been illegally dumped in a Calumet City landfill. And the company temporarily suspended disposal operations at an Ohio site after belatedly learning that...
...Python troupe have become a true flying circus, engaged in savage aerial combat with the institutionalized madness and hypocrisy of the age, performing their comic loops and turns dangerously close to a battleground that, they insist on reminding us with every low-swooping pass, is a sea of muck, blood and offal...