Word: rottener
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This was the inevitable end of a country rotten with intrigue and corruption, honeycombed with foreign agents, torn by clashing internal factions, with all its fell forces suddenly let loose. Premier Antonescu must have remembered his words of a fortnight ago, as he optimistically left to sign with the Axis in Berlin: "I leave with complete confidence in the Rumanian people, I shall return with complete confidence in the German people...
...named Sparrow, attired in a linoleum dress suit, submitted himself to a barrage of swill including rotten melons, goldfish, eggs...
Professional Soldier Lamb shakes a sad head over the undisciplined, insubordinate American soldiery, their treacherous breaches of warfare's rules, the jealousies among their generals. Sadder still, with no inexperience to excuse them, are Britain's graft-rotten sea transport, uncoordinated military plans, incompetent ministers in London. Roger Lamb's sharp eyes are open also to the wonders of the New World: St. Lawrence scenery, hoop snakes, strange herbs, the odd customs of the Indians and the Yankees. He also has a fresh-air affair with Kate, an enemy's wife. But though the sergeant vomits...
Candidate Willkie hadn't been hit yet; rotten-eggers are notoriously inaccurate. But people were really trying: eggs, a cantaloupe, a rock, a stick had been pitched at him. In Homestead, Pa., police confiscated an unknown quantity of tomatoes and apple cores from some twelve-year-old politicians; in Philadelphia, one Israel Kirby, 65-who happens to have been born in Rushville, Ind.-was arrested with a dozen eggs at a Shibe Park Willkie speech; had to prove they were eating, not throwing eggs...
...that authors influence anyone but the intellectuals and that intellectuals count for anything in the formation of national policy and the state of the mass mind. Most people in America have never heard of the writers MacLeish mentions and could not have been influenced by them. Most intellectuals make rotten soldiers anyway, so their defection is of small importance - supposing the defection exists...