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Word: rottener (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Plainly, there is something rotten in the state of a game once deemed so noble that it supposedly embodied the great civilizational virtues by which Britain claimed the right to rule over others...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cricket Murder Reveals Game's Ills | 3/27/2007 | See Source »

...driver, but Bishaq was also a truly rotten human being. He enjoyed insulting refugees, whom he claimed were "lazy" and "naughty" and whom he would taunt by slowing down as though to offer a ride, only to refuse when they asked. Once, when a family asked us to take their shaking, malarial father to hospital, I agreed, only to be overruled by Bishaq who insisted the decision was his alone. Another day, I caught Bishaq poking and laughing at a mentally disturbed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: On the Road with the Driver from Hell | 3/27/2007 | See Source »

...Bayrou: They're like big trees that have become rotten inside. All it takes is a good breeze to make them fall...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bayrou Speaks | 3/21/2007 | See Source »

...candidate is traveling through Normandy to a rally in Evreux. When he's not out campaigning, Bayrou likes to unwind driving one of his tractors. That machine would come in handy for uprooting the nation's two largest parties, which he compares to "big trees that have become rotten inside...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: France's Middle Man | 3/15/2007 | See Source »

YEVGENY VDOVIN, acting governor of Russia's Omsk region, about oily, rotten-smelling, orange-yellow snow falling in the Siberian industrial area, which officials attributed not to pollution but to dust storms in neighboring Kazakhstan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Verbatim: Feb. 19, 2007 | 2/8/2007 | See Source »

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