Word: slimed
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...fell asleep and dreamed of his daughter. "I saw her," he said, "not clearly, but as through a haze. She held out her arms and said, 'Daddy, daddy, my hands are all black.' " Back at his digging next day, Yonosuke noticed for the first time a thick slime of coal-black clay oozing out of the debris. He dug in the slime until a side of the trench fell in. There, embalmed in the clay which had blacked their hands and faces, lay the bodies of his wife and his daughter. "Some villagers rushed up to congratulate...
...believe the general is real, but both find it easy to believe in him. He is an ideal which they must protect from any corruption, in order that the general may be able to remain a salvaged weapon of a lost battle after they are buried in the slime of newsprint...
...blueprint and frankly afraid of it. These are people fearful that machines will make hands useless and brains even less necessary. To escape from possible superannuation, they return, at least symbolically, to soil and unquestioning faith. It is an alarming literary trend that pushes humanity back to the slime, but it can sometimes provide good theatre...
...military traffic, ancient taxis, rachitic streetcars (some from Atlanta), and the snorting and lowing of oxen. In dry weather dust all but obscures the city's one traffic light, which is attended by a listless Korean cop. In wet weather the streets are covered by an evil black slime. Sailors say that Pusan's stench can be detected ten miles...
...explained that whenever there is a period of rapid thaw after a cold spell, the growths, which look like a green slime on the surface of the water, multiply at a tremendous rate...