Word: putrid
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Muskie took some time to unravel Fuller's visionary verse. But last week he replied in the Times with 44 lines of his own bad poetry. After reeling off a few contemporary images-"nemesis clouds," "putrid smoke," "noxious oxides"-he got to Fuller's Maine point...
...sure, jails vary widely from two-cell rural hovels to modern urban skyscrapers. But the vast majority treat minor offenders?and the merely accused?more harshly than prisons do felons, who commit graver crimes. The jail mess is typified by New Orleans' Parish Prson, a putrid pen built in 1929 to hold 400 prisoners. It now contains 850?75% of them unsentenced. Money and guards are so short that violent inmates prey on the weak; many four-bunk cells hold seven inmates, mattresses smell of filth and toilets are clogged. Prisoners slap at cockroaches "so big you can almost ride...
...This is the most unclearly written book in the English language on the subject," said John E. Gilster, a first-year MBA student. One student said, "The smell of the fire is due to the content of the book." Others called the fire "putrid...