Word: stench
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Hurok offices, he said, have "the stench of Auschwitz...
...ground also makes sanitation a problem. Although the U.S. Public Health Service has promised to help with sewers and a water system some time in the future, Barrow residents usually dump solid wastes -encased in the ubiquitous 55-gal. drums-near the Naval Lab. In the summer, however, the stench of open "honeybuckets" is almost unbearable...
...source of Hartford's stench is two lagoons to the west of the town. They were bulldozed out by Libby, McNeill & Libby, when the company found that the discharge from its big beet-processing plant at Hartford was polluting the local creek. The idea was that the two lagoons would serve as a cesspool area, where wastage could be aerated and treated until it was pollution-free...
Always Hungry. As conditions within East Pakistan have worsened, so have those of the refugees in India. The stench from poor sanitation facilities hangs heavy in the air. Rajinder Kumar, 32, formerly a clerk in Dacca, says he is "always hungry" on his daily grain ration of 300 grams (about 1½ cups). His three children each get half that much. "They cry for more," he says, "but there isn't any more...
Gibberish. Even the author admitted he had thrown together "enough material for four novels." Turgenev described A Raw Youth as "sour stuff-the stench of the sickroom, unprofitable gibberish." And on the occasion of this new edition, John Updike condemns the novel for a "penetrating badness that casts doubt over even the peaks of an author's accomplishment...