Word: rotted
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...enough to bring a smile to the face of William Bennett, the former Secretary of Education and dependable moral scold who, along with Democratic Senators Joseph Lieberman and Sam Nunn, launched a crusade last October against what Bennett termed the "cultural rot" of TV talk shows. Said Lieberman at the time: "These shows increasingly make the abnormal normal and set up the most perverse role models. It's time for a revolt of the revolted." The trio went so far as to make a TV ad targeting advertisers on the more controversial programs...
...were proved right, and so the nation's grief was charged as well with the fear that something even more profound than one man's life had been ended. In the aftermath, Israelis seemed to be asking themselves, "What kind of a people have we become? What rot has infested our national soul...
...others it's idiocy. To former Education Secretary William Bennett, it's cause for alarm. Bennett and C. DeLores Tucker, noted gangsta-rap haters, have joined with Senators Joseph Lieberman of Connecticut and Sam Nunn of Georgia in a campaign to wean Americans off what they call "cultural rot...
...Clinton should be commended for his ethical and principled decision to admit the Cuban refugees at Guantanamo to the U.S. [CUBA, May 15]. He has taken some flak from that small minority of ultra-conservative Cuban Americans who would have been happy to let their Cuban brothers and sisters rot at Guantanamo, but instead of caving in to their pressure, Clinton took the moral high ground. Cuban Americans will think highly of him for allowing the rrunification of Cuban families. RAYMUNDO DEL TORO, PRESIDENT Cuban American Commmittee for Peace Linden, New Jersey
...lives in self-imposed exile in Alexandria, Virginia. Valle says many of the country's federal police commissioners and assistant attorneys general receive payoffs from drug lords. "It's a frigging disaster of enormous proportions," says a senior DEA agent, commenting on the burgeoning culture of corruption. "The rot is nothing like we've ever seen before...