Word: rottener
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...paint better than Lautrec." He set out to prove it and for three years painted starved, laundresses, absinthe drinkers and grave, bearded beachcombers in blue. Nowadays they seem a bit stagy and sentimental; Barr suggests that they reflect Picasso's "room without a lamp, his meals of rotten sausages, even his burning a pile of his own drawings to keep warm...
Undulant fever (brucellosis) is caused by bacteria transmitted to human beings by infected cows, goats or pigs, either by contact or in unpasteurized milk or cheese. Hence it is most common in rural areas. Anyone who feels weak, tired, feverish and generally rotten should be suspected of having the disease-but detection is tough. Reason: the symptoms resemble those of many other common diseases, including malaria, tuberculosis, psychoneurosis. Undulant fever seldom kills, but it may keep its victims wretched...
...Chicago, C.I.O. United Automobile Workers, picketing the American Automatic Devices Co., threw rotten eggs at police and fought them with their fists (see cut). In four days of violence 68 rioters were jailed and scores were beaten by cops. "Those mob scenes with policemen swinging their clubs make ugly pictures," observed Mayor Ed Kelly...
...have enough rice; angry mobs fomented violence. In four riotous days last week 59 Korean policemen were killed at Taegu in the U.S. zone; 60 were wounded and another 100 reported "missing." Unsigned handbills in Seoul read: "Down with American Imperialism," and "Why only one hop [handful] of rotten foreign corn? Corn is for horses in the United States. If death is inevitable, let us have a bowl of rice before it comes...
...adless newspapers (see PRESS). It was a short interview with Michael J. Cashal, first vice president of old Dan Tobin's International Brotherhood of Teamsters, which was involved in New York City's walkout of truck drivers (TIME, Sept. 16). Said Brother Cashal: "This strike is a rotten mess...