Word: rancidly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...rarely paid and miserably fed. In 1796, His Majesty's government owed the crews $14 million in back pay, some of it three years overdue. In home port, after months at sea, only the officers set foot on land. Ship's cheese came adulterated with kitchen scourings, rancid fat and glue. Messes began with a ritual tattoo as men banged their biscuits on the table to shake loose the vermin...
...view the phenomenon with alarm. Studies showing that Elvis fans had a below-C average were circulated. A Senate subcommittee started to investigate the link between rock 'n' roll and juvenile delinquency. Pablo Casals condemned rock 'n' roll as "poison put to sound," Frank Sinatra called it a "rancid-smelling aphrodisiac," and Samuel Cardinal Stritch labeled it "tribal rhythms...
...threat was obvious. The immediate problem is one of cost-both in money and in terms of human endurance. At the present rate of influx, the U.S. and South Viet Nam must spend $12,500 a day merely to keep the newcomers in rice and nuoc nam, the rancid fish sauce that provides the Vietnamese with protein. Housing is so short that many of the refugees can find no quarters at all and must sleep in the open. Many others have been displaced before. Some 6,000 villagers burned out in Phu Yen province last week were victims of another...
...there was Lenin, stiff and still, a symbol and a sign, And rancid races come to thrill and wonder at his Shrine; And hold the thought: if Lenin rot the Soviets will decay. Perhaps this explains why Khrushchev & Con go to the expense that they do to keep the old goat on display...
Love with the Proper Stranger. This romantic comedy-drama succeeds in spite of itself, for it is brimful of enough warmth and hip humor to mask a decidedly rancid plot. The girl Angie (Natalie Wood) is a clerk at Macy's. The boy Rocky (Steve McQueen) is a part-time musician temporarily bunking with a nightclub stripper, Edie Adams. One day at Rocky's union hiring hall, Angie appears and tells him: "I'm gonna have a baby." He blinks at her, then: "Congratulations." He can't remember the girl's name...