Word: slimed
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...once was. On once velvety golf links, cattle nibble at the patches of imported English grass that have survived months of neglect. Rows of expensive golf carts sit rusting in the salt spray from the nearby Pacific. The Olympic and villa pools, long stagnant, are covered with algae-green slime. Outside the compound's wrought-iron gates, striking waiters, maids and maintenance men-who have been picketing since July under a red and black strike flag of Mexican unions-are encamped with their dogs, turkeys and barefoot children, barring entrance to all. Though they are owed four months...
Beset by senators and such-like slime...
...those terrible fumes were the arms of Scylla swooping down upon our noses, then the water was Charybdis, a horrifying whirlpool of slime, filth, and most dangerous of all, rapscallions on the shore waiting in ambush. There was no telling what would show up on a day's row. Once, we found a dead buck--it was unmarked so we speculated that it had fallen through some thin ice. Another time a man's body was found...
...hard to comprehend the morality and sense of responsibility of a man who savagely guards a tattered personal dignity at the cost of dragging through mud and slime the most august political office of the U.S. Why won't this man resign? America is trudging through a leaderless period, and it has long been obvious that Nixon, whether guilty or innocent, is no longer capable of filling the leadership...
...there is an archetypal adversary, an angry Amos unearthing evil in America today, it is Jack Anderson. He is the latter-day, stinging serpent of the Lord at the bottom of the bureaucracy, slugging away at slime and moral decay, six days a week...