Word: cesspools
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Yard dies a violent death from runaway frisbees or errant golf balls. Stanford students like to say Palo Alto is more laid back, but there's a medical term for that: coma. We have crew races on the Charles River. Stanfordites sail on a man-made cesspool christened "Lake Lagunita." For non-Romance language afficianados that translates as "Lake Lake...
...field last year, and who is back this year for grand larceny and possession of stolen property ("He catches the summers here," chides a buddy. "Some people go to the Hamptons") says it is a world apart from Riker's Island. "Over there it's a diseased cesspool," says McMurray. "Am I right or wrong," he yells to a dozen fellow diggers. "Right!" they holler, then go back to shoveling dirt into the gash that holds the ten coffins that Charlie Garcia has placed in their charge. "It's one germ after another [at Riker...
...most serious malady is malaria. Nearly everyone has it, and some have suffered six or seven attacks. Says Tran Long, 27, a former mathematics teacher from Saigon: "Inadequate food and sanitation are our biggest problems. There are not enough latrines. The rainy season turns the camp into a cesspool...
...Block, though even that lusty landmark has been sadly vulgarized by topless dancing and a renewal project that has largely plasticized its façade. Mencken once complained that the Baltimore harbor of his youth had smelled in summer like "a billion polecats." Today the Inner Harbor is not a cesspool but a scene of jams and jollity. The white middle class is returning from the suburbs in droves. More than 20% of Harborplace visitors are torsts from out of state. Baltimore is no longer, as they used to say, "a town on the way to another town," or "Washington...
...most notorious examples of St. Louis' physical deterioration is the Pruitt-Igoe public housing project, built by the Federal Government in the mid-1950s at a cost of $21.5 million. The high-rise complex was dynamited by the city in the early 1970s after becoming a cesspool of crime and decay. Today, buffalo grass has reclaimed the 55-acre site...