Word: rottenly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...bank officer, "no serious banker could look at the pattern of his bank's opening up correspondent accounts and Lance's getting personal loans and believe the sequence was coincidental." Added a New York banker: "The use of compensating balances to buy favors for yourself is a rotten practice but very common"-and one that is frequently employed by businessmen as well as bankers. In a typical case, a New York bank lent $125,000 to a company's treasurer, accepting stock worth almost $70 a share as collateral...
ITEM: In London, Singer Johnny Rotten spits at the audience and cries out, "I hate you!" Sizing up Johnny's four-letter words, tattered clothing and generally repugnant personal deportment, the British Establishment decides that it hates him. Johnny and his band, the Sex Pistols, are regularly banned from British radio, concert halls and clubs. Nonetheless, the Pistols' latest single, a Jubilee diatribe against royalty called God Save the Queen, is currently a bestselling record in Britain...
Says Johnny Rotten: "The millionaire groups were singing about love and their own hang-ups. That's stupid. You don't sing about love to people on the dole." Blithefully, whiningly, punk says anything and everything. As the Sex Pistols chant, "God save the Queen/ She ain't no human being...
...getting off for. At the market vendors offer fruit and vegetables from open wooden carts on the street, which is always covered with at least a day's layer of garbage. Good deals are available there, but watch out for the hucksters who will slip you a bag of rotten peaches from behind their stands in place of the perfect peaches enticing you out front. It is wise to go in the evening, when the sellers want to go home and will therefore sell whatever they have left for small change. Acorss the highway from Haymarket is the Italian North...
Since 1969, Martin has managed at Minnesota, Detroit and Texas. He has had winning seasons everywhere and been fired everywhere. His approach is classic: Us Against the Rotten World. Us is the team and the coaches. The Rotten World includes other teams, the press and even the front office...