Word: rottenly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...ratio placed on both the men and the women here. But she also had to admit the thought of all those excess men sounded awfully nice after four years in a small, rural high school. And Jeff's conversation made her even more optimistic. Sure the system was rotten but she felt pretty confident she-d be able to enjoy herself here...
...Republican was in line to chair the upcoming National Governor's Conference. (Jimmy Carter used his spot as chairman of the Democratic Governor's conference in that year as a launching pad for his own campaign. But after McCall labelled an address by Spiro Agnew as "One rotten, bigoted little speech," his prospects for heading the conference grew dim. The Republicans blacked him out completely after he endorsed the Democratic candidate to succeed him as governor, a post which he could no longer hold under Oregon law, having completed his second term in office...
...Championship U. Of course the athletes deserve all they can get for they officially get so very little in return for their tireless efforts, but where does it leave them if they don't learn anything and they don't make the pros. But we all know it's rotten and there's nothing we can do to change it, right? The championship tourney will be great and we'll have the tube on and a beer in hand and go Marquette...
...Such audiences as there may be for this pulse-slowing movie might wish to reflect on the dismal results of commercial overreaching. For what The Cassandra Crossing offers is an unstable blend of three currently popular genres: the paranoid thriller, in which the good guys turn out to be rotten; the train-of-fools story; and, finally, a disaster film. Decent writing and skilled direction might have come up with something admirable for its nerve if nothing else. But the crowd responsible for this one lacks even the wit to take pleasure in its own low cunning. There...
Israel charged that France had broken its extradition treaty, withdrew its ambassador to France, Mordechai Gazit, and called in the French ambassador, Jean Herly, to deliver a "vigorous protest." In Tel Aviv, a crowd of 1,000 that included families of the Munich victims hurled rotten eggs at the French embassy. Summed up Jerusalem's daily Ma'ariv: "With cowardice, meanness of spirit and cynicism, the government of France has raised the white flag to the oil suppliers and Mirage purchasers...