Word: rotted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...major U.S. city. Unfortunately, such help has rarely been extended either through consolidation of governmental services or revenue. Says City Councilman Henry L. Valentine of Richmond: "Our neighboring localities do not seem to want to assist us in facing the problems of the core city. But if the core rots, the whole apple will rot." Or as John Lindsay puts it: "If we cannot move forward in the cities, we will move backward in America. If we fail now, the cost will far outweigh today's financial deficits. They will be measured in despair, in hatred, in bitterness...
...suggest that someone roundup a pack of these utterly inhuman creatures who foxhunt by snowmobile, set them loose in unfavorable terrain, and pursue them with a snowmobile, or whatever, until they drop from exhaustion and die. And let them rot where they fall. Such living carrion are not worth burying...
Osman: Rusty, do you want to rot in jail, or will you pay up with a bottle of champagne...
CLAIRE LHÉROT Geneva...
...Borsch; were I to follow my conscience then, it would lead me out into the desert with Marion Faye, out to where he stood in The Deer Park looking east to Los Alamos and praying, as if for rain, that it would happen: ... let it come and clear the rot and the stench and the stink, let it come for all of everywhere, just so it comes and the world stands clear in the white dead dawn...