Word: littering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Nerve News. In Chicago, burglars got into police headquarters, leisurely cleaned the detective bureau of $10,000 in cash and jewelry, left a litter of 70-odd cigaret butts and burnt matches. Few days later gunmen pinched one of Mayor Kelly's brand-new police-escort cars, used it in four holdups, finally abandoned it and vanished without trace...
During the November action the Ticonderoga planes helped litter Manila harbor with sunken Jap ships. In December, when I was aboard, the Third Fleet mostly ran into foul weather, but the carrier planes, including those from the Ticonderoga, left about 450 Jap planes wrecked on the air fields of Luzon, and others on Formosa, according to Halsey's reports...
Through Misery Street. 'At Brundisium, slaves raised Poet Virgil's gilded litter to their shoulders, marched off toward Augustus' palace. The road led through the slum of Misery Street...
...fetid dwellings whose floors were littered with "sucklings bedded on rags and tatters" tottered howling greybeards, goats, whores, filthy children, "quadrupeds bleating . . . bipeds screaming." The crowd surged against Virgil's litter, screaming insults. "When you've croaked you'll stink like any other! Litter loafer! Money-bags...
...last the litter bearers reached a room in the imperial palace. Yellow-faced and bright-eyed with fever, the poet thought of the names the mob had yelled at him, decided that they were appropriate. With death staring him in the face, he looked back over his life...