Word: rottener
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Said District Judge Frank Picard after the trial: "The whole thing is rotten . . . the Army and the State Liquor Control Commission are going to hear more about this...
...Adolf Hitler had said: "I promise you ... I could destroy the Church in a few years. It is hollow and false and rotten through and through." In the years between wars the churches did less than they might have to disprove this slander. Like many of Europe's churches, the Lutheran Church of Norway was a state establishment. Pastors living comfortably on state-provided farms and holdings were often held suspect by their poorer neighbors. Many of the common people thought them complacent and bourgeois; young intellectuals scoffed at both the Church...
...very dark and the air was choking with the reek of cordite and grit and the fine dry dust of rotten old woodwork. My eyes and nose were full of dirt. I was shivering from panic and excitement, but at the same time experiencing an extraordinary sensation of being completely all right and unhurt, no matter what horrible thing had happened...
...Deal measures, clapped, shouted and sent telegrams, demanding more of the same. Next night, on his homeward journey to Albany, Dewey abandoned his previous objections to barnstorming, was still happily "digressing," making back-platform speeches, even at midnight, in Springfield, Mo. (At Springfield, a small boy threw the first rotten apple of the campaign,, missing Dewey by ten feet, but conking a photographer.) At each stop Dewey continued in his Oklahoma City style, swinging freely-at bureaucracy, at the "Roosevelt" depression, at Hillman, Madam Perkins and Earl Browder...
Harder Words. Two days later PM echoed Pravda in a three-page editorial by leftish Max Lerner, who could "not escape the slightly nauseating job of dissecting the rotten cadaver of Bullitt's piece." "Why?" he asked rhetorically. "Because this "is the first time that anyone with a veneer of respectability, in a respectable paper, has uttered a direct call for a war between England and America on one side and Russia on the other...