Word: swill
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...atrocities committed by vengeful Russian soldiers along the route to Berlin have been acknowledged as "excessive" even by Soviet military historians. Solzhenitsyn coolly chronicles the passage of troops through Prussia as they swill schnapps, set fire to towns and villages, rape and murder German civilians and loot houses of items ranging from vacuum cleaners to Vienna rolls. As the narrator, Solzhenitsyn at first remains aloof, offering a succession of vignettes of violence without comment. Only once does his voice break, seemingly to signify some greater grief than the desolation of war. The moment comes when the narrator sights an "endless...
...swill...
...devoted, disciplined businessmen. To Americans the Japanese too often appear as some sort of grotesque national parody-crowds of transistor salesmen with kamikaze pilots' scarves, legions of passionate new consumers teeming on a string of islands which are about to sink beneath their growing population and industrial swill...
...tosses in nightmare; waves swill against his mattress, accusing figures and monsters jostle in the water, and a gigantic buttoned glove flops like a squid against the bedroom wall. A skeleton lies across a railroad track, two bony ringers stuck between fleshless lips to whistle an approaching train to its accident. Cliffs become gloomy torsos, a lobster floats in air. The images seem like snippets from a surrealist collage by Max Ernst. In fact, they filled the graphic work of a 19th century German academician named Max Klinger...
...Chronicle during his 18 years as top editor. Almost singlehandedly, Newhall changed the Chronicle from a dull, gray daily loaded with international news into a paper full of snappy human interest stories, pictures with lots of cleavage and bizarre headlines. Example: "A Great City is Forced to Drink Swill" -followed by an "exposé" of the alleged bad coffee in restaurants...