Word: rotten
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...aphrodisiac parasite that covers the ground with dead insects, the disgusting blooms that throb with sensual palpitations. . . . Stretched from tree to palm in long, elastic curves, like carelessly hung nets [the lianas catch] falling leaves, branches, and fruits, [hold] them for years until they sag and burst like rotten bags, scattering blind reptiles, rusty salamanders, hairy spiders . . . the comejen grub gnaws at the trees like quick-spreading syphilis . . .; everywhere is the reek of fermentation, steaming shadows, the sopor of death, the enervating process of procreation...
Something Rotten. In Denmark, German authorities clamped down on a vaudeville hypnotist who made six volunteers believe they were Gestapomen, hostages, and saboteurs respectively, then made the Gestapo arrest the hostages and let the saboteurs escape...
This does not mean that there is an egg shortage in sight. War Food Administration has on its hands 1,400,000 cases of eggs-approximately a half billion eggs. WFA is still frantically trying to get rid of eggs. Warehouse space is badly needed, some eggs are turning rotten (TIME, Aug. 21). Helpfully, eggmen recently tried to buy 47,000 cases stored in Providence. But WFA promptly turned them down: the bids were not so high as WFA's rigid high ceilings. Many eggs turned bad while the price rose...
...Well, the first thing I did was to look into the air, and I noticed it was full of bits of tiles and glass and bricks so I dived again. There was dirt everywhere and a horrible smell like soot-maybe it was the explosive, but it smelled like rotten soot. And then, a long time later, the clatter of falling things...
...Ohio Star, in Mrs. Warren G. Harding's home town of Marion, shrieked: "Every patriotic citizen of the U.S., every lover of liberty in this land, should rise to condemn him and the purveyors of his filthy lies and rotten perversions...