Word: putrid
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...Haven. The very words make you cringe. But despite what appears to be a putrid cesspool surrounding our Eli brethren, they (Yalies), as well as our counterparts at a host of other elite institutions, seem to have something we lack. According to a confidential memo recently leaked to the Boston Globe, administrators are aware of the unsettling buzz: Harvard students are less satisfied with their undergraduate experience than students at other top-tier colleges...
Then came November. I won’t rehash the incredible geyser of all things putrid that was November 2. Nor will I replay the soul-searching, finger-pointing, sobbing, and cursing that went on afterwards. The important thing, the shocking thing, is that life went on. Bombs continued to fall, soldiers continued to die, the economy sputtered and rose and sputtered some more—and life went...
...February 2002, police officers raided a house where they suspected illegal activity. Along with the stashes of morning-after pills, the bare, putrid mattresses and the rancid doorless bathrooms, the police discovered four girls between the ages of 14 and 17. Prostitutes? No. These girls were sex slaves: Mexican nationals lured to America and forced to have sex with clients for $35 an hour...
Descending en masse from their hamlet, the Cornellians transform the tranquil arena into an emotional tinderbox. They slip fish—hidden underneath their clothes—past security guards. When Cornell scores, the fans hoist the putrid trout onto the playing surface, then serenade the Crimson faithful with a rendition of “Far Above Cayuga’s Waters...
...most prized possession, he says, is a cache of 82mm mortar rounds. Mohammed displays one of the rounds and proclaims, "This is a chemical mortar." Encased in a green storage tube with a flip-lock lid, the weapon has liquid sloshing inside a bulbous head reeking with a putrid odor that burns the nostrils. The Russian markings on the weapon identify it as a TD-42 liquid, high-explosive mortar. It's impossible to know what is really in the device or if the boasts of Abu Ali and Mohammed are true. Iraqi scientists in the Military Industrialization Commission...