Word: rottener
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...along fine. Roy Acuff fiddled The Great Speckled Bird, with his Smoky Mountain Boys backing him up in good old stomping mountain style. Carroll Reece flapped out his long tongue, grabbed a fiddle, and got in the act. But when Reece grabbed the microphone and started to speak, a rotten egg sailed out of the night. It hit him in the back. Two tomatoes, another egg, and a lemon spattered down. Acuff was hit in the side with a grapefruit...
...distorting the human face." In three days in North Carolina, booing, jeering crowds drowned out his attempts to speak. He and his party were pelted with dozens of eggs and tomatoes. He was hit at least nine times, splattered by near misses five times. In Hickory, N.C., two rotten eggs plopped near him. Cried Wallace bitterly: "As Jesus Christ told his disciples, if at any town they will not listen to you will ingly, then shake the dust from your feet and go elsewhere."* He shook off the dust of Hickory...
They complained, as prisoners always do, of poor food, but seemingly they had reason. Breakfast consists of a small cup of mate, sometimes with sugar, seldom with a biscuit. Meat, usually rotten, is served occasionally, but the dinner staple is corn and beans, which the prisoners eat seated on the floor...
...under the control of the Minister of State Security. According to the theory of Marxism, the Party should control all state organs in the country . . . while in Yugoslavia we have just the opposite . . . Capitalist elements are in full bloom . . . The Yugoslav Communist Party is being put to sleep by rotten opportunistic theories of peaceful absorption of capitalist elements . . . This is nothing new. In Russia 40 years ago a faction of the Mensheviks proposed that the Marxist party be dissolved into a nonparty workers' mass organization. As is known, Lenin classified these Mensheviks as hellish opportunists...
...Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn had definite ideas on the best way to cure warts. Tom favored "spunk-water" (rain water in a rotten tree stump). One of Huck's favorite prescriptions required a dead cat: "Why, you take your cat and go and get in the graveyard 'long about midnight when somebody wicked has been buried; and when it's midnight a devil will come, or maybe two or three . . . and when they're taking the feller away, you heave your cat after 'em and say, 'Devil follow corpse, cat follow devil, warts follow...