Word: septic
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...just started getting repugnant, like the nasty B.O. in the gym.” Several students and staff said the smell reminded them of sewage. “It was fetid,” said Vincent M. Chiappini ’09. “It definitely had that septic smell. It wasn’t just weird, it was gross.” “At one point it was unbearable to come in here,” added Aditi Mallick ’08. Chiappini said the smell became noticeable about two weeks ago, noting that...
...unfit for human consumption. Lanzhou's red tide, though dramatic, has so far has not been reported to have poisoned drinking water. The spill occurred during repairs at a steam-heating station, when water containing a pink dye to distinguish it from drinking water was discharged into a local septic system, and then flushed into the river. Lanzhou's environmental officials said Tuesday they were still assessing the impact of the spill, and that those responsible would be punished...
...Krall says he has spent "several" hundred thousand dollars making improvements, including designing a new septic system, renovating some of the dilapidated housing stock, trashing the shacks and cleaning up the debris and weeds. He also says he obtained a permit for resort development along the river that borders the town, which he says the new owner will be able to use. "It's a wonderful place,' says Krall. "I don't think I'll have trouble selling...
...nice to be moved, together with all mankind, by children running on the grass.? Kitsch denies the earthy messiness of life. And ?totalitarian kitsch,? he writes, outlaws individualism, doubt and irony, because they risk exposing the beautiful lie it is designed to sustain. The gulag, Kundera argues, is ?a septic tank used by totalitarian kitsch to dispose of its refuse.? But in Pleasantville, of course, there is no mention of any gulag, only of children running on the grass...
...sudden massive coronary event” on the evening of December 30, 2003. Five days prior to Dunne’s death, their daughter Quintana Roo Dunne had gone to the emergency room with a flu that had become pneumonia, and then slipped into septic shock. These two events and their aftermath are the primary focus of the book.Early on in “Magical Thinking,” Didion declares that “the way I write is who I am, or have become,” and this is indeed carried out in the fractured, meandering style...