Word: fester
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...chaos" and his own film audience as "Neanderthals"--or when he observes that "while a black man got into the White House, he still can't get a cab in New York." Like Molière, Allen and David know there are few spectacles droller than a misanthrope in full fester...
...contest against Brown, Pizzotti kept a drive alive as the clock wore down, setting Harvard up for a touchdown to bring the team within two. But a failed two-point conversion resulted in a 24-22 loss to the Bears.As the season progressed, that loss to Brown began to fester, nagging at Harvard’s Ivy title hopes. But Pizzotti kept the team in the hunt, averaging roughly 250 yards per game and rolling past both league and non-league foes.In the third-to-last week of the season, Pizzotti notched a record game when it counted most. Against...
...albeit with additional safeguards for the accused. And in his self-professed desire to look forward rather than backwards, the President has spurned the calls of congressional Democrats for a "truth commission" to air the Bush Administration's dirty laundry. He and his aides know that letting these issues fester - as they did Thursday over House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's claim that the CIA had lied to her about the use of waterboarding - will consume all the political oxygen he needs for his own agenda...
...sought-after speaker. "I no longer say that there's a creeping Talibanization in Pakistan," he warned. "It's a galloping Talibanization." For 45 minutes, he expanded on his theme, explaining how the Pakistan Army's narrow focus on India has allowed the militant threat within the country to fester, how money that should have been spent on helicopters to combat the insurgency was squandered on fighter jets better suited to attacking India. But the message failed to sink...
That walk is strewn with trash - stinking tangles of plastic and organic matter and decaying animal carcasses fester on sidewalks. Until recently, the Basrawis' focus was on security. Since autumn, private polling undertaken by the British government has seen the poor state of public services and infrastructure leapfrog that concern; phone-in programs on the local Al-Mirbad radio station are dominated by discussions of sewage and the electrical brownouts that hit the city several times every...