Word: putrid
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...COURSE, the Bostonians didn't fill in their Back Bay just because railroad trestles had made its water stagnant and putrid, or because they liked challenge. Back Bay represented the last development of Boston as a centralized city. The mother peninsula was cramped and almost completely developed-and before the suburban railroads and the auto, the city itself couldn't really expand across the water...
Giveaway Game. Since antiquity, when the beautiful Princess Nausicaa in Homer's Odyssey laundered her linen by placing it in a stream and then dancing on it, women have sought improved ways of washing clothes. Honey, bran, sheep dung and even putrid urine have all been used as cleansing agents over the years. Enzymes were introduced as home-laundry presoaks during the early 1960s in Europe, where they have long been used for removing stains in hospitals and slaughterhouses. Unilever, the huge Dutch-British soapmaker, markets enzyme laundry products in 20 countries...
When the flooded area was visited last night, the stench was overpowering. One student described it as "putrid--it smells like mildew." The floors were warped, the plaster was spattered, but the lung-clogging stench prevented a detailed examination of the damaged suites...
...clutch of lurid nudie magazines, the film was introduced as evidence of the kind of material that the Supreme Court, with Fortas in agreement, has found to be not legally obscene. Senator Thurmond branded the nudist magazines, such as Nudi-Fax, Friendly Female and Weekend Jaybird, as "foul, putrid, filthy, repulsive, objectionable and obnoxious...
Barry Wood could do no wrong. In late 1931, one of America's foremost sports broadcasters covered Wood and company against Dartmouth. Disappointed with Wood's performance, Ted Husing called the hero's play "putrid." Immediately thereupon, the director of athletics wrote a blistering letter to William Paley, the president of CBS, saying that Husing would never again be allowed to broadcast from Soldiers Field...