Word: rotted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...oppressed, flocked to the defense of Eyre. Thomas Carlyle could not speak of Jamaican Negroes without being insulting: "Sitting with their beautiful muzzles up to their ears in pumpkins, imbibing sweet pulps and juices; their grinder and incisor teeth ready for every new work while the sugar crops rot." Only slightly less violent were Alfred Lord Tennyson, John Ruskin and Charles Dickens; Novelist Charles Kingsley proposed that Eyre should be elevated to the peerage...
What saddens some Germans even more than the traffic is the news that more than 200 of the ancient dwellings in Heidelberg's Altstadt-the "Old Town" where generations of Heidelberg students loved to stroll-are near collapse from neglect and fungus rot. Loath to destroy the Altstadt (and along with it a lucrative tourist trade), Heidelbergers are equally reluctant to try to raise the $50 million needed to restore the buildings...
...Morals have been discounted too long," wrote Times Editor Sir William Haley last June. "A judge may be justified in reminding a jury 'this is not a court of morals.' The same exception cannot be allowed public opinion without rot setting in and all standards suffering . . . For the Conservative Party -and it is to be hoped, for the nation -things can never be quite the same again...
...then twelve. He was thereafter reared by an eccentric uncle, William Green Yerger, who dabbled at farming his family's remaining cotton acres. Mostly, the uncle liked to catch catfish. Sometimes he just stuffed the fish into a dresser drawer at home and left them there to rot...
...Prestwick, was built before the 14th century, remodeled into a superb example of an 18th century baronial mansion. Set on a wooded hillside, its 160-acre site affords excellent facilities for shooting and salmon fishing. Guests dine on the very spot where manacled prisoners were once thrown to rot while the wicked barons feasted in an upstairs hall (now the ballroom). Its 24 rooms rent for a minimum of $4.50 a night...