Word: rottener
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...received a second order, he resigned. The Vice President refused to accept the post, resigned likewise. So did the next two Councilmen in line. The mantle fell finally on the willing shoulders of nationalistic Dr. Ricardo Labougle. When he tried to speak to striking students, he was received with rotten eggs and firecrackers...
...return to civilian life (what the hell, I'll take a chance while still a sailor), I'd like to engage Legionnaires John Gare Jr. and John E. Boland with tomatoes-preferably rotten eggs-at 20 paces...
...grandfather had been a Baptist missionary there, his father was still a missionary in Rangoon, he himself had been born in Burma. But Namkham, its people and dialects were new. And the hospital was filthy. "The floor was stained with blood and pus and medicine, and was so rotten you had to step carefully not to break through. . . . The walls were covered with large red splashes of the saliva of betel-nut chewers. All the window ledges were covered with nasal secreta which the patients blow on their fingers and then carefully wipe off on the nearest projection. . . . That night...
...London suburb made bleaker by the Blitz. Its people-many of them - were phlegmatic busybodies made vicious by the strain of war. In the cold winter of 1942, with the side walks filmed with ice, weary infidelities in the cold houses, grafting in the desultory municipal government, train service rotten and winter colds everywhere, murder was possible. In Croxburn it happened...
Three Beats. Collingwood's bedroom sessions convinced him that something was rotten in North Africa. He managed to convey the idea by air to the U.S. when he finally got through. "I honestly didn't try to evade censorship," says Colling wood, "but sometimes I'd get so upset at the news that I guess my voice was affected." Collingwood got three big beats (thanks to his diligence and radio's speed) : the first news the U.S. had of Darlan's assassination, the execution of his assailant, the roundup of the twelve Frenchmen who assisted...