Word: scum
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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After a most cursory examination of the water outlets in the soup kitchen he was able to tell us what was wrong. "Simple clogging," he explained. "When too much grease and scum collect in the pipes not enough water flows through--happens periodically." Then, turning to the cooking staff he made a quick executive decision: "Well, girls, there'll be no soup tonight. Suppose you take shifts on filming and spotting this afternoon." We asked what filming and spotting was, but Mr. Whiteside suggested that we leave that until later, going first to the dehydration rooms. "Better take off your...
Such popularity is indeed deserved: syndets do the job better. They dissolve the greasiest grease and dirtiest dirt, leave no scum behind, make clothes cleaner and cutlery more coruscating. But the result of all this cleanliness is a mountain of foam. Most of it is created by the high-sudsing detergents used for household work or washing dishes in the sink. Such detergents sometimes cause foam to back up stories high in the pipes of tall apartment buildings. A high-sudsing syndet falling through a pipe from the 15th floor may enlarge itself 17,000 times by the time...
...Austen Butler announced his newest device for rehabilitating gaolbirds: a $280 prize for the best original literary, artistic or musical composition produced behind bars. Unmentioned, at his own request, was the instigator and donor of the award: Author Arthur (Darkness at Noon) Koestler, 56. whose Dialogue with Death and Scum of the Earth grew out of his own imprisonment by the Fascists during the Spanish Civil War and by Vichy France during World...
...Anthony ("Tough Tony") Accardo. and Murray ("The Camel") Humphreys. Charging that one of Kelly's underlings had been driven to a suicide attempt by efforts to prevent him from testifying, the subcommittee chairman, Arkansas Democrat John McClellan, wondered aloud if the bulky, balding Chicagoan were not "the lowest scum of humanity" and if he had "no sympathy at all for your fellow man." Replied Kelly to both questions: "I decline to answer on grounds that my answer might tend to incriminate...
...might have commenced full of humanitarian sentimentality. And then, perhaps, demon ideology, with its imperatives and its inexorable dogmas, its sobersided caricature of religion, had swept them on to horrors." They are forever talking "of the sufferings of the working classes," but people in general are merely "that scum...