Word: rotted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...defense, Lane should never have gone to the jury-in this case the moviegoing public-with such a shaky case. He appears to be under the impression that Rush to Judgment rips the hide off America to expose the corruption beneath. But it only exposes the dry rot of his own unreasonable arguments...
Secretary Gardner at the time of his presidency of the Carnegie Corporation, "How to Prevent Organizational Dry Rot...
Cursed by unrelieved warmth and sun, and by new production from south ern-Florida groves, the current crop will surpass last season's 100 million boxes (100 lbs. each) by 42 million. When the nine-month harvest ends in June, nearly 10 million boxes may be left to rot unsold. Oranges "on the tree" cost 75? a box to grow and last year brought a handsome $1.25. They are now going at a distress price of 35? a box, leaving growers with the prospect of a $50 million loss on the crop...
...Ibsen asked men and women to be honest with themselves. He saw most human beings as hypocrites of the heart, defilers of the mind, and desiccators of the spirit. In his plays he waged an inexorable assault on the timid frauds, the sick souls, and audaciously exposed social dry rot. Integrity was his dramatic Excalibur. The profound irony of The Wild Duck is that it unflinchingly examines the human havoc that can result from so ruthless a devotion to honesty...
...feeble-minded) will really point up the futility of it all. And then, glory of glories!, have the Deprived One murder the beautiful bride of the Depraved One. One victim of the system destroying another. Only the causes of the whole tragedy surviving it. What irony! What tragedy! What rot...