Word: rottener
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Said a docker on the Thames near Westminster Bridge (on which only two lights burned): "This is the proof of 20 years of rotten government. If the Conservatives had harnessed hydroelectric power 20 years ago, this would not have happened.* The Government can count on us dockers...
...China draws heavily on Theodore White's book, his article is a great deal more than a book review. He traces the Knomintang from its rise to power in 1927 to the present, showing that the present corruption and reaction of Chiang's party rests historically on equally rotten foundations...
...hundreds of years, Paris' chiffoniers (rag pickers) had shuffled about quietly in the half-light before dawn, pawing through potato peels and rotten meat in their quest for a handful of old rags or an empty tin can. (Their .reward: for a kilo of rags, 4 francs; for a kilo of iron, half a franc...
...propagandist, spends nearly half of the article of an emotional treatment of the southern problem. He is neither objective nor accurate. The author is apparently one visitor from the land of millennial equality who stumbles onto the back alley of America and peers into an ignored and white-washed rotten area that seems to bother no one around. The great intolerance of orthodox Stalinism is then demonstrated in the author's Legree treatment of anyone south of the Ohio river--an intolerance of human beings who attempt to solve their problems a little less violently if a little less rapidly...
Masaryk's statement that Czechoslovakia's "swing to the left" had run itself out was endorsed by Benes. The nation is "against Communism" he said, adding that some "rotten democracies" are equally unpopular. "Our policy is to take the best from everything we see around us' and has enabled Czechoslovakia to combine individual liberty with a planned economy and assure everyone economic and social freedom, he stated...