Word: rotted
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...weeks earlier, Rice had been warned by James Wolfensohn, the former World Bank chief sent by the U.S. and its allies as a special envoy to help reboot the Palestinian economy, that Gaza's harvest, which was almost due, would be likely to rot in warehouses. That was because Israel, which controls all access points into the Palestinian territories even after withdrawing from Gaza, and the Palestinian Authority had been unable to reach an agreement that would let inhabitants of the territories travel and trade. The two sides were inches from a deal, Wolfensohn said, but were hung...
...They just let me rot." BOB DOUGHERTY, Home Depot patron in Boulder, Colorado, on suing the company after store employees waited 15 minutes to respond to his cries for help?which they believed to be a hoax?in getting unstuck from a restroom toilet seat someone had smeared with glue
Every year our hypocrisy grows as we fight against measures that would equalize our school system—an infrastructure that funnels substanially more funding for the schools in wealthy neighborhoods, leaving schools in poorer areas, be they urban, suburban, or rural, to literally rot away. Johnathan Kozol’s book Savage Inequalities makes this argument, graphically illustrating the funding discrepancies with stories of children being forced to learn in completely racially segregated schools, in closets and bathrooms, in condemned buildings, or with outdated books. But the most upsetting part of Kozol’s book isn?...
...smell of bloated bodies and swamp rot permeates the air, especially in the suburbs to the north and east, as sewage laps at the doors and windows of homes, hospitals and amusement parks. In the hardest-hit area, St. Bernard Parish, to the east, searchers navigated the floodwaters looking for submerged bodies, often coming up empty, then finding horror: of the 67 known dead there, 27 perished in one nursing home. In one hospital, a single doctor was found caring for 57 patients in 10 ft. of water. Eleven patients had died. "You don't need dogs or detection devices...
...plausible answer is never. Vast tracts of the city--not just shanties but mansions, not just the morgue but the Southern Yacht Club--aren't salvageable. They all sit in what is called "floodwater" but is really a solution of oil, feces, battery acid, human and animal rot, burst containers of bug spray and paint thinner and nail polish and antifreeze. The primary sensory experience of New Orleans now is the smell, a gagging foulness of the charnel, of the hundreds of bloated fish pooled in the 17th Street Canal and a million other nasty things floating everywhere. The masterless...