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Word: rotted (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
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...kind of timing that exists only in fiction? It needs not only all the above but also a measure of foresight, so that a solution, any solution, is permanent. An Arab-Israeli peace today is ripe for the picking, so ripe that waiting will almost guarantee it will rot and fall off the tree...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: From Ball Fields to Battlefields | 8/21/2000 | See Source »

...rice as the first modest start of a new green revolution, in which ancient food crops would acquire all manner of useful properties: bananas that wouldn't rot on the way to market; corn that could supply its own fertilizer; wheat that could thrive in drought-ridden soil...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Grains Of Hope | 7/31/2000 | See Source »

...Yeah, I heard," Lee replied. The agent persisted. "You know Aldrich Ames? He's going to rot in jail." When Lee tried to leave, pleading fatigue, an agent warned, "if you walk out that door today...I can't stop the people from polygraphing your wife...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Federal Excess | 1/17/2000 | See Source »

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