Word: wretchedness
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His theoretical “worst shower experience” may lend a clue to what this surveyor looks for in bodily cleansing. He describes: “Upon opening the bathroom door, a horrid, wretched smell jumps out of the bathroom which is filled with clothes, lichen, algae, bacteria?...
The economic downturn of the Chianti region in the ’70s is, thank heavens, a bygone era. Not so the deluge of so called supertuscans that resulted from the fiasco. Obiter dictum, the word “fiasco” alludes to another bygone era of Italy. One...
All this has made Srivastava one of the most powerful activists in her state. Her organization, People's Movement Against the Oppression of Women, is working on women's rights in Rajasthan, a province in western India still redolent of premodern customs: sandstone palaces, bejeweled maharajas, turbaned men leading camels...
What makes the NCAA tournament so great--and makes this year's tournament better than most--is cheering for underdogs, a distinctly American pastime. When the Statue of Liberty says "give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, the wretched refuse of your teeming shore...