Word: uncleanly
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...discriminate against me because I am uncouth, I can become mannerly. If you ostracize me because I am unclean, I can cleanse myself. If you segregate me because I lack knowledge, I can become educated. But if you discriminate against me because of my color, I can do nothing. God gave me my color. I have no possible protection against race prejudice but to take refuge in cynicism, bitterness, and hatred...
...soldiers discreetly retreated when a strangely dressed figure emerged from the woods near Fort McPherson, Ga. Clad in heavy garments, with goggles and big asbestos gloves, he toted a bulging burlap sack. Even technicians at the fort's medical laboratory shrank back. "Unclean, unclean," said one of them. "Phooey," replied Sergeant Seymour Shapiro. From his sack he pulled one of the long, leafy, hairy-stemmed vines of poison ivy he had been gathering, cut the vine into 3-ft. lengths and hung the pieces in bundles, like curing tobacco, from the ceiling...
Nevertheless, many sufferers "are so imbued with the idea of the contagiousness . . . that they have veritable phobias and are constantly scrubbing, using strong soaps, disinfectants, germicides and patent remedies on themselves, on their families and on all objects and utensils. . . . Once they are convinced that they are not 'unclean,' not a menace to themselves and to others, patients with superficial ringworm [athlete's foot] infections experience great psychic relief." A real cure of athlete's foot, the doctors add, often depends on eliminating the use of skin-damaging chemicals...
...proprietor's face and everybody ended up in Night Court. ∙∙Tobacco Road's longtime Jeeter Lester, James Barton, was arrested by the S.P.C.A. charged with letting nine of his dogs live like the Lesters-mangy, flea-and fly-bitten, sore-splotched, in a "filthy and unclean kennel" in Garden City Park, L.I. His wife Katherine explained: Jim picks up strays; most of the animals are 12 to 14 years old, several are blind, they have a naturally neglected look...
...every big main has been broken at some time or other, there has been no typhoid fever. Reason: large quantities of chlorine were immediately poured into the water. There has been, confessed Sir Wilson, a good deal of paratyphoid, a milder cousin of typhoid. This was traced to unclean bakeshops...