Word: rottener
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Washington correspondents, gossip columnists, private tipsters of business, have all been trying to tell the public that the Government's organization-for-war has broken down badly. Last week one publicist, in a semiprivate newsletter, termed conditions "rotten." The fact was that men in high places, men of probity and passionate sincerity, close to the White House and in the President's confidence, were plainly and loudly telling each other that the war was being lost-not on the battlefronts but by Washington mismanagement...
...daisy-cutter bombs through the tents of two sergeants and every stitch of their clothing, he did little damage. What rocked the United Nations force was that its crack anti-aircraftsmen, who had been nipping Nip bombers consistently (see p. 44), got not a single hit. It was a rotten show...
...ghastly hot. Next day, and for three more days, we had to march down the middle of a stream. Sand got into our shoes and socks and my sores got four times as big as they had been. Then we had three days on rafts made of rotten bamboos. My bed was six inches under water. Then we crossed the Chindwin and started up and down some awfully steep hills, some 7,000 feet high. I had had malaria every couple of weeks since December and the day we reached the Assam border I couldn't have walked another...
After days of rotten weather, Britain's R.A.F. had smashed German targets with more than 1,200 planes. The R.A.F. had done more than launch the biggest raid in air history. It had started the great test of the striking force of air power. R.A.F. men and other military pilots were confident that if the raids were continued (and Britain meant to continue them), Germany could be brought to her knees by air power alone before winter. This may be a partisan judgment. But one thing is certain: unless something goes bitterly wrong, Germany will be a much-chastened...
...right to. He had fought hard and well at Dunkirk. Home again, on sick leave, in civvies, he grouses about the men who led him: ". . . stupid, complacent and out of date, with no claim to leadership but birth and class and privilege ... in a struggle to preserve the same rotten, wornout conditions that had kept their class in comfort. . . ." When his leave is up, he decides not to go back to the army, becomes a deserter...