Word: rotted
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...bucket, there are slightly smaller options—still served in Mason jars, though—such as Plantation Punch and the bright blue Carolina Cooler, as well as shots with intriguing names like “Say a Prayer” and “Moonshine: Pure rot-gut. Be strong.” Though it’s easy to become completely distracted by the drink menu, as we almost did, don’t forget that Brother Jimmy’s has food too. Because it opened so recently, a few of the starters and dinners listed...
...despite our outrage, everyone in the University community—from the president to the pre-frosh—must maintain an overriding reverence for free speech. No matter how upsetting, open discourse challenges our assumptions, undermines our prejudices and exposes intellectual rot. The greatest disservice a university can do to its students and staff is to allow healthy debate to be stifled...
Consolini’s attention switched to support posts only after retirement. He decided to build a traditional Belizean house on his waterfront property. In the process, he learned that the wooden posts used to keep the house above rainy season floods and the ubiquitous mosquitoes are doomed to rot within 15 to 20 years of being implanted...
...Everywhere along the route, further signs of government perversion were clearly visible. Dead farming plots have been reclaimed by the desert because no one cared to make a simple repair to an irrigation lever; hundreds of buildings begun and abandoned, leaving all the necessary materials to rot; people living in ruined brick hovels despite the nearby presence of hundreds of bricks. The people of Southern Iraq may not be able to attain Western standards of prosperity, but they have the immediate resources to make dramatic improvements to their current situation if they were inspired...
...chuffed about how to fix the system, but legislation proposed to date is likely to lack teeth. The Bush Administration responded late to the public's sense of outrage, then seemed to lose focus. In the end, the only man who appeared to be serious about cleaning up the rot was Spitzer, 43, a relatively unknown state official armed with the law, a streak of fearlessness and boxes full of incriminating e-mail...