Word: scum
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...remaining oil at sea, six Royal Navy ships and a small armada of civilian tugs and trawlers scattered thousands of gallons of oil-dispersing detergent. Along the beaches, British troops and civilians bulldozed oily areas, scattered more detergent and strung out floating antisubmarine "booms" to corral the surface scum...
...overtures to improve race relations, moved to cut off relief and unemployment benefits to the rioters, ordered the city housing authority to evict some of those arrested. The city also set bond so high that few could be released from jail. Sabonjian called the rioters "animals, junkheads, winos and scum," said that their actions were "not the acts of human beings...
...been following them began to yell, --"Don't walk by a Catholic church... Don't walk by, you're not good enough." There seemed to be an ambivalent feeling: the spectators seem to assume that the marchers felt superior to everyone else; the natural response were constant taunts of "scum." Nor, in many cases, did the marchers' response dispel initial impressions. The quiet, "let's be reasonable, "can't we talk about this" approach was simply alien and frustrating...
...scum that's been going to the Episcopal Church?" With a single voice we answered, "The scum, sir?" "Scum," he returned, "S-C-U-M. That's what you are--you and the nigger trash you bring with...
...campaign, the streets are clean, but the Seine is murky and grey, except for the occasional white fluff of detergent suds. Once England's M.P.s fished for salmon in the Thames at Westminster. No more. In Poland, the Vistula's filtration system is clogged with silt and scum, and Warsaw must tap other water sources. Sickest of all the Great Lakes, Erie is so close to dying that the states along its shore face the prospect of paying a billion dollars apiece for pollution control...