Word: rottener
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...stagnant upper layer of fresh water and a deoxygenated lower layer of salt water. The sewage which is drained into the Charles falls to the bottom, where it decomposes. Since there is not enough oxygen, this decomposition produces hydrogen sulfide, which gives off the now-familiar smell or rotten eggs...
...tend and churn when they hear that we have discovered gold nuggets on the banks of Flushing Creek. The truth is that they hate like hell to see the fair moving to success. I don't overrate these people, but one drunk can interrupt a Mass; a rotten egg can silence Hamlet, and a stink bomb can empty a theater...
Also Beans. Viewer participation was induced by bombarding the audience with leaflets, pink toilet paper, dried beans and rotten green apples. One thoroughly Stockhausened blonde thought apples were for eating, but the rest of the gardists in the audience knew better. They responded by pelting the actors with the fruit. The hall was packed for all five performances...
...Washington recognized in 1780, command of the sea "was the pivot upon which everything turned." The British had that superiority, at least on paper. But the Royal Navy was rotten at the core. Its political admirals, mercilessly vignetted by Larrabee, were boneheads or worse...
Catalogue of Sins. If the council's charges against Kubitschek were secret, newspapers and TV carried an impressive catalogue of sins. He is accused of buying 1 billion cruzeiros worth of rotten beans, of accepting huge kickbacks on construction jobs, awarding contracts without public bid, stealing federal funds and committing election fraud. Then there is the Communist angle. He is supposed to have signed a secret 1955 agreement with Communist Party Boss Luis Carlos Prestes to get his election support, encouraged Communist infiltration in his government, then paid Prestes $50,000 for his support in the 1965 elections...