Word: cesspool
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...reforms succeed, Kemp will be remembered for turning a bureaucratic cesspool into an effective and vibrant instrument of reform...
...Until now silence has been the only form of honesty, but today we cannot be silent any longer. We are being drowned in the torrent of applause from a claque; suffocated in the sewage of lethargy and sunk in the superidealized cesspool...
...improved airline safety quickly hardened into demands for the British, German and U.S. governments to disclose what they know about the bombing. Bert Ammerman, a high school assistant principal who lost his brother Tom and now heads a group called Victims of Pan Am Flight 103, calls Washington a "cesspool of unaccountability." After months of lobbying Congress and a meeting with President Bush, the families finally persuaded the Administration to establish a Commission on Aviation Security and Terrorism, which began hearings last week...
April 4, Opening Day, Baltimore. The Sox open the season under the cloud of the second installment of Margo Adams's kiss-and-tell expose in Penthouse magazine. Adams is reaping huge profits from the expose and a new book, titled A Cesspool of Sleaze...
...nutshell, the storyline focuses on Detective Sargeant Stanley White (Rourke), a Vietnam Vet-turned policeman propelled by a Ramboesque obsession with the American military failure in Southeast Asia and a steely determination to flush out the undesirable element from what he regards as a cesspool of Sino-American corruption--New York City's Chinatown...