Word: rottenly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Republicans have been slow to take advantage of the new mood. Their message, often overwhelmed by the negativism of the hard core, is not getting across. "We have done an absolutely rotten job of selling ourselves," says Washington's G.O.P. Governor Dan Evans. "We are spending too much time arguing over what part of the political spectrum we are in?giving too many saliva tests." Lamar Alexander, Republican candidate for Governor of Tennessee in 1974, complains that the party has not been as effective as Jimmy Carter in "expressing conservative life-styles and personal values." Political Analyst Kevin Phillips agrees...
...rose to speak, the chamber fell deathly silent. Israel would not consider itself on the defensive in the debate, Herzog began. "I am in no way sitting in the dock as the accused party," he said. Instead, he continued, "I stand here as an accuser [of] this rotten, corrupt, brutal, cynical, bloodthirsty monster of international terrorism and all those who support it in one way or the other, whether by commission or omission." The nations that should be on trial, he said, were those "who have collaborated with the terrorists and who have aided and abetted them." Israel was "proud...
...that an art of reasoned severity and correct classical proportion was needed to embody it. As William Howard Adams writes in the show's excellent catalogue: "Jefferson envisioned a style and form based on antiquity but with a purity that left behind history's corrupting influences of rotten governments, benighted rulers and unenlightened institutions...
...occasion was undoubtedly enhanced by the knowledge that their own president, the Reverend John Witherspoon, took part in the congressional deliberations last week. He forcefully told wavering delegates that the country is, in his words, "not only ripe for the measure [independence] but in danger of becoming rotten for the want...
Certainly this was true for Kirkland House, whose three kamikaze crafts--loaded with smoke bombs, four cases of dry ice and rotten fruit--never made it to the starting line. Their plans to capture the "senseless violence" award went down in smoke and bubbles from the dry ice crates...