Word: cesspool
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...good news is that when students finally do return to campuses, cleaning crews will have scrubbed the buildings clean. "The officials say they have scrubbed down the school, which is great because I think schools are a cesspool of germs anyway," Wahl blogged. "I'm curious if the school has put soap back in the bathrooms? Officials took it out of the bathrooms because kids would wreak havoc with it making huge messes. But, my lord, shouldn't it be back in the bathrooms...
...seasonal or casual work on offer meant few could afford comfortable places to live, though; landlords, well aware of the fact, threw up cheap housing without toilets, bathrooms and oftentimes drinking water. The over-crowding and disease appalled visitors. Behind one row of houses, Charles Dickens noted "a cesspool, bubbling and seething with the constant rise of the foul products of decomposition." The grubby, "consumptive-looking ducks" swimming upon it, he wrote in 1857, resembled "the human dwellers in fould alleys as to their depressed and haggard physiognomy...
...short walk from the site of the one-time cesspool, Lewis Calado's well-kept home, with its bushy pot plants and white flowering tree out front, stands out on a grotty housing estate littered with boarded-up properties. Life on the estate has improved in recent years, he says - still sporting the luminous vest from one of the two truck driving jobs he holds down to meet his mortgage payments - although petty crime remains a blight. The windows of his neighbor's new car were smashed recently. "You can't leave anything inside," Calado says. "Even...
...wasn't even going to think about running" for Martinez's seat, says a prominent GOP Floridian. When Bush left office as Florida's governor last year, he insisted he wasn't interested in running for President, Senator or any other job that meant wading into the Beltway cesspool. And there was also the widely held notion that Bush, like Rudy Giuliani and other domineering chief executives, wasn't especially well cut out for the compromise and deliberate pace of the congressional sandbox...
...logic and its own power, which hits you all the harder because you don't see it coming. How can art, Bolaņo asks, a medium of form and meaning, faithfully reflect a world that is blessed with neither? That is in fact a cesspool of randomness and filth? An orderly book, all signal and no noise, would not be a true book. To mirror a broken world, to speak the unspeakable, you need a broken book. That Bolaņo should have died and left his book an orphan might even have struck him as appropriate...