Word: rottenly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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During one game earlier this season the racial baiting by a few Atlanta fans was so bad that Aaron shouted back: "I'm coming up there to kick your butt in if you don't shut your rotten mouth." Though the worst of his hate mail is kept from him, the black outfielder is aware of the resentment against him for "infringing on a white man's record." Says he: "What am I supposed to do? Stop trying to hit home runs...
...with green chartreuse. Once asleep, I found myself again in the cemetery. A minatory wind scuttled through the silent tombstones, and Charonian shadows leapt and grimaced with unspeakable frenzy. What was most unusual for a dream was that my nose was active, wrinkling in disgust at the fetor of rotten grass and the ichor of freshly overturned earth. This time the enshrouded figure spoke to me in hollow tones: "Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn." I woke up screaming...
...overwhelming evidence indicates that this year is not just one rotten exception in a series of smoothly-engineered seasons of housing placement. The Committee on Houses and Undergraduate Life has persisted in upholding a system of ineffective social engineering that will only grow more complicated and less manageable as the demands of new generations of bureaucratic manipulators are added...
...Look," says Ed Daniels, 56, an American Motors stockman, hunched over his beer in Lud and Jerry's: "This stuff is rotten, but impeachment would be worse. Let Nixon finish out his term, then throw him in jail...
Corruption certainly exists, but it is important to make distinctions-between larger and lesser transgressions, between various motives and aims. The big city machines, forever symbolized by Boss Tweed, were rotten, but some also performed necessary social functions. The Teapot Dome affair of Harding's Administration, the freezer and coat giveaways of the Truman and Eisenhower eras, were corrupt acts based on organized greed, some massive, some relatively modest. Watergate is a far greater malignancy. These conspirators wanted to short-circuit the electoral and judicial processes, to rewrite the book on national security, to manipulate the standards of ethics...