Word: rottener
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...demo disc of PC viruses I came across about a decade back. The software was a sort of digital rogues' gallery, intended to "educate" the user by demonstrating how certain bugs behaved. Activate the "Cascade" demo, for instance, and letters would pop out of your text like rotten teeth and collect in a pile at the bottom of your screen. These domesticated viruses weren't infectious like their cousins in the wild. If you just removed the floppy from the PC, the mischief would cease...
...been wondering whether the people who make fun of George W. Bush for carrying his down pillow on the campaign trail can be accused of engaging in class warfare. Are they really saying that Bush is what my mother would have called "spoiled rotten"? I should make it clear from the start that I am not among those who have engaged in such ridicule. My wife has a strong preference for down pillows, and as it happens, she would make an excellent President. After many years of marriage, I am also in a position to tell you she would...
...wasn't so much the persistent protest, though that may have played a role. A rotten tree--and its removal--have persuaded Harvard University to rework its plans to build a new library on its Dumbarton Oaks campus in Washington...
Then, in March, a peaked tree in an area of the grounds known as the Dell became dangerously rotten. Gardeners were forced to chop it down...
...father, whom he never met until a brief, awkward reunion just before his dad died, when Ware was more than halfway through the book. "I was resistant to meeting him, and I was trying to figure out why," says Ware. Did he? "No! That's the rotten part of it. I feel even more confused than ever...