Word: rottener
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...16th Century, Richard Chancellor, captain of the Edward Bonaventure, sailed from England to Russia. He reported: "The Russian upper classes overeat and overdrink; but the poor is very innumerable, and live most miserably . . . nor the fish cannot be so stinking nor rotten, but they will...
...York City may be sound to the core, but it is rotten around the edges. From Red Hook to Hell's Kitchen in the muttering jungle of New York's 771-mile waterfront, bollard-necked hoodlums have long kept things regular with gun, knife, cargo hook and dornick. They have prospered so well and without challenge that they have been forced to kill only about 20 men in ten years in & around the docks. Now & then one of the hoodlums went to the chair for it, but business was fine otherwise. According to the best estimates, they stole...
...combination of rotten officiating and B.U. over eagerness to win was the difference between hard, clean hockey and the Hogan's Alley style on display in the second and third periods at the Arena...
...matter what the modernists may think, Italy's women rice pickers are not 'rectangular objects with wooden thighs and faces like rotten cantaloupes.'" So ran an editorial in the Italian Communist magazine, Rinascita, which has caught the current Kremlin fever for art with a rosy-Red message (TIME, March 8). Last week, in a letter to Rinascita, 14 ill-indoctrinated party painters struck back. Among them was 37-year-old Renato Guttuso-one of the best Italian artists living. Art, said their letter, should concern itself with "the struggles of the working class [but] to these struggles...
...report of the President's Commission was a huge boost for federal aiders. They cried out more loudly that the educational system was grossly inadequate from top to bottom, and that parts of it were downright rotten. They underscored what the Commission said: that democracy cannot rest on shoddy education, and that a modern state (democratic or not) cannot survive in the twentieth-century world on antique citizen training programs...