Word: rot
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...people like to read stories and books that reek with sin, that shame the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah, that shock and insult high heaven? It is because millions in America are honeycombed with impurity, vice, adultery and moral rot. When they read popular books and magazines that sanction this . . . they feel less guilty about their own sins...
Ascendant popularity of nationally syndicated comic strips was seen yesterday as "a pornographic trend," and "dry rot for American youth," by Franklin G. Balch '49, spokesman for the College Montaigue Society...
...Leprosy, caused by a germ (Mycobacteria. leprae) resembling that of tuberculosis, attacks the skin and peripheral nerves. The first symptom is loss of sensation in the skin. Reddish spots develop, then nodules (lumps), particularly on the face. In late stages the disease may rot away the nose, ears, hands, feet...
...Tennessee will illustrate to New England, by its hell-for-leather manner of flay, the dry rot and decay which have overthrown the Harvard and Dartmouths and Browns here in a corner of the country where college football players are strict amateurs and play like strict amateurs." November...
...withdraw to the Oder and let eastern Germany rot; or 3) accept the Byrnes invitation to join in a united German economy, perhaps by February. By then the Russians may present their Allies with 20 million hungry eastern Germans almost stripped of productive machinery-a nightmarish economic liability which could haunt Europe for many years to come...