Word: rot
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...released him, and his stern face became as familiar an image of those days as the bullet-pocked walls. But then the Soviet tanks swept in, and Mindszenty fled to the safety of the U.S. embassy, where he remained, in effect a prisoner again. "Let him sit there and rot," Hungarian officials told the Americans. "He doesn't inconvenience us and he embarrasses...
Though the same team has given us two other films dealing luxuriously with upper-class rot (The Servant and Accident), The Go-Between begins with images and words which suggest that tired tricks are abandoned, and that Losey and Pinter have put a novelistic concentration of characterization and detail on the screen. The credits are projected against a raindropped windowpane: we see glimpses of green foliage and a manor-like brown blur. A pitted voice speaks: "The past is a foreign country. They do things differently there...
...Gulf Coast of Florida from St. Petersburg to the Marco Island area was visited by a "red tide," a massive bloom of microorganisms (Gymnodinium brevis). They stained the sea water rusty brown and killed thousands of fish, which then washed up on the beaches to rot. Workers cleaning the beaches around St. Petersburg could hardly keep up with the harvest of dead fish putrefying in the summer sun. It was the worst occurrence since an eleven-month siege in 1946-47 destroyed an estimated 100 million pounds of fish...
Like Foreigners. A basic problem is a shift in attitude toward soldiering in general. At West Point, which a young Pentagon lieutenant colonel irreverently calls "the first station of the cross" for Army hierarchy, some officers still see the service as the sole bulwark against national rot. But many of the cadets quickly shed their uniforms for civvies once they get home on leave, and explain to dates that they go to "an upstate New York college, or the U. Va., some place like that...
...more than $500 million in gold. Of the estimated 3,700,000 buffalo killed from 1872 through 1874, only 150,000 were killed by Indians. The rest were slaughtered by white hunters for skins and for meat to feed rail workers, or by "sportsmen" who left the carcasses to rot. The destruction of the buffalo broke the cultural, ecological and spiritual links in the chain of Indian existence. This was not without its uses. "Let them kill, skin and se'l until the buffalo is exterminated." said General Philip Sheridan, a Civil War hero. "It is the only...