Word: rottenly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Outraged Parents. In dozens of meetings in the living rooms of white parents, Mayor Kevin White urged peaceful compliance with the order. "It's a lousy, rotten law," he said. "We fought the thing. We lost. Now we have to go along with it." But White was unable to quell the outrage of white parents in South Boston. Isolated from the rest of the city by canals, railroads and express ways, Southie is a tightly knit, working-class Irish community that has produced many of the city's leading politicians. Among them: former House Speaker John W. McCormack...
Penn has a great offense but a rotten defense. If the defense should come through the Quakers will win the title. But if the defense is as porous as last year, no matter how many points Vaughan, Bellizeare and company put up on the board, the Quakers will have to settle for another back-seat finish...
...women's auxiliary of the F & G C, which insists that American women are "oppressed, indeed enslaved," Wallenberg brings on his secondary weapon, the opinion polls. From the findings of Gallup, Harris and others, he concludes that "American women don't believe they are living in a rotten, corrupt sexist society that has crushed them. They are, in fact, more satisfied than men." Similarly, polls show that the majority of Americans are middle class "because they think they are middle class, and they think they are middle class because they fit the criteria that they themselves have established...
Despite danger and disease, Stringer carries on, planting sensors and calling in air strikes. Sick from rotten water, he hallucinates a slippery dialogue with an imaginary captor. The jungle becomes his world and his home. When Army helicopters come to rescue him, he shoots them down...
...Minn., Robert D. Lund voices a business philosophy that is pure Vince Lombardi. "The way to win," he says, "is to get out in front and improve your position. When you're green you're growing, but when you're ripe you're next to rotten." His hard sell seemed appropriate enough at General Motors' Chevrolet division, where as general sales manager he set a record of 3 million vehicles sold in 1971, but somewhat out of place at the Cadillac division, which he took over as general manager in January 1973. The haughty Cadillac...