Word: unclean
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Others were concerned about the possibility of blood poisoning among rowers, whose blisters often come into contact with the River's unclean waters...
...Unclean living conditions in shelters and inaccessible or indifferent caseworkers were other factors that Bolden says contributed to her exasperation...
...cases, previous attempts to impose fundamentalist law have taken bizarre forms. When a mullah named Maulana Sufi Mohammed decided to enforce strict Shari'a law in his mountain valley near the Afghan border, he prohibited driving on the left side of the road because the left hand is deemed unclean. Numerous car crashes failed to deter him. Inspired by the Taliban's medieval puritanism, mullahs in northwest Pakistan are destroying TVs and setting up roadblocks to stop cars and rip out music cassettes...
FOOD FOR THOUGHT: Don't be gauche. In Saudi Arabia and other Islamic countries, eat and drink with your right hand; the left is considered unclean...
However, after six years at Sidwell, I had the populace trained. People knew to keep their grubby little fingers away from my cranium. I had seen the foul bathroom hygiene (or lack thereof), and did not want unclean appendages all up in my space...