Word: rottener
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...losses and ironies of the war. But then there comes, even to the civilian (we are all, beyond a certain age, veterans of Viet Nam), a vivid flashback, and the mind fills with the war again. It comes back and back and back. Charles de Gaulle called Viet Nam "rotten country," and he was right in a psychic as well as a physical sense. Rotten, certainly, for Americans. Viet Nam took America's energy and comparative innocence--a dangerous innocence, perhaps--and bent it around so that the muzzle fired back in the nation's face. The war became America...
...bureau chief, is haunted most by an experience in March 1965. "I spent 48 hours in a pouring monsoon helping to load the dead of the South Vietnamese 5th Airborne Battalion onto helicopters," Wilde remembers. "There were 453 of them, including six U.S. advisers. All of the corpses were rotten with rain. We were scared; we could feel the Viet Cong watching from a nearby tree line. The stench of death massaged my skin; it took years to wash away...
...Uffizi Bacchus, which are. The Bacchus is detached, down to the last dirty fingernail on his pudgy hand: not a god, but a pouting, weary-eyed model in costume, his crown of vine leaves rendered with sparkling exuberance, his flesh slack and tallowy, and half the fruit bruised or rotten...
...woman and her son were taking Disneyland's Autopia car ride in 1975 when a 16-ft.-long branch from a eucalyptus tree fell in their path. They stopped their car, but others rammed them from behind. Hovland figured he could win on several points: a tree in rotten condition, a poorly designed roadway and cars without headrests. After a seven-week trial, the jury deliberated only 1 1/2 hours. Verdict...
...Madame Schreck, who runs a particularly nasty pornographic peep show. Fevvers, by now known throughout the London demimonde as the Virgin Whore, plays the Angel of Death in erotic tableaux. Hearing that her mistress has sold her services for a trifle, the rara avis explodes: "What, 50 rotten guineas for the only fully feathered intacta in the entire history of the world? Call yourself a procuress...