Word: rottener
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...eccentric genius for publicity. She ruled her company much the way that Catherine the Great ruled Russia-through nepotism and terror-and openly played one faction of the huge family she kept employed against another. "Go tell my nephew, what's-his-name, that he's a rotten vice-president," she once ordered her secretary. "They all want to prove their worth," she complained to O'Higgins, "but they all want to enjoy their own lives. People . . . people . . . and I'm alone! With burdens . .. such burdens...
...Amsterdam: "As long as there is a court at the top that is protective enough of constitutional rights, the lower courts will strike a balance against the overwhelming conservative bias of legislators, cops and prosecutors. Take away the liberal threat at the top and the entire system goes rotten...
Anyone who lives near a paper mill knows that smell-a rotten-egg, spoiled-cabbage stink that pours forth when wood pulp is cooked to produce paper. Now, thanks to a small industrial furnace company's work in Muskegon, Mich., the awful stink...
...good measure, Ky jeered that the country has become "a rotten boat with a deceptively good coat of paint. The men who steer the boat," he added, "are unfaithful, disloyal, ungrateful people...
...nation's policy-making center. We were shamed at the realization of what unseen horrors this society has created, and what traps it has produced for men whom it insists on labeling as criminals. And we were confronted with policemen-so often chosen to symbolize all that is rotten in America-who too are frightened by the rapidity of incomprehensible change, the size of a "system" they can't understand but which they obediently serve, and their own rejection by others for what they must believe to be a genuine service to society...