Word: uncleane
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...leprous man, he is unclean," says Chapter 13 of Leviticus...
...mesquite and the oddly haunting sound, a crumpling tinny flex of metal, that an Aermotor windmill vane makes randomly in the tremendous spaces. But out in the middle of nowhere the rancher will come upon an oil "location" that he has leased to drillers. The work is deafening, unclean and, of course, extremely profitable. Oilworkers seem weirdly surly and uncommunicative for this part of the country, like punk rockers, Ahab's harpooners, aliens. The chemical "slush" from the hole in the ground gushes up into a loathesome open pit lined with a sort of Hefty...
...what a perfect place. Los Angeles in the late 1940s. Growing faster than anyone could imagine, much less control, the city encouraged reckless passions and unclean souls. Money and sex ruled over millions of greedy and lusty supplicants. And the millions had to contend only with each other because the rest of the world--either by design or by default--had decided to let Los Angeles grow on its own. Winner take...
Among the Monumbos of German New Guinea anyone who has slain a foe in war becomes thereby "unclean "... [He] must remain a long time in the men's clubhouse . .. He may touch nobody, not even his own wife and children; if he were to touch them it is believed that they would be covered with sores. He becomes clean again by washing and using other modes of purification...
...among Afghanistan's disparate and so far uncoordinated rebels. But the letters have far more credibility than the government and its enormous press, radio and TV propaganda machine. Indeed, Karmal is seen as a puppet and a traitor. He is commonly referred to as a saq (dog)-an unclean animal to Muslims...