Word: rottenly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Last Monday and Tuesday, more than 700,000 retailers, tradesmen and sympathizers struck in protest; the shopkeepers pulled down their blinds, turned off their lights and shut up shop. Most simply stayed home, but some marched and threw stones, tomatoes and rotten eggs at the windows of chain stores. Gas stations stopped pumping; highways and streets filled with cars that were abandoned after they ran out of fuel. Restaurants, movie theaters, newsstands all closed. Even doctors closed their offices in sympathy. Bars shut and prostitutes disappeared from the streets...
...used hashish to give fanatical courage to his hirelings before they set out on murder missions. Thus, from a corruption of hashshashin, they added the word assassin to the language. What has since been learned about hashish suggests that while the crusaders may have been good fighters, they were rotten reporters. More likely, the bloodthirsty sheik, if he ever existed, gave his men hash after, not before, their exploits, during a period of rewarding rest and recreation in a perfumed garden peopled with houris...
When McGovern heard the news last week, he stormed out of a Senate cloakroom exhaling an uncharacteristic fire. He repeated the threat: "It's an incredible, rotten, stinking political steal. I'm not going to support anybody who is elected by crooked and unethical procedures. I wouldn't have any part of a convention that would sustain this kind of shabby back-room dealing." Later, when his mood had cooled and he realized that his fight had just begun, McGovern seemed to change his mind. "I don't want to make any threats," he said...
McGovern has termed the committee's action "an incredible, cynical, rotten political steal." He said at the time he "couldn't possibly support a convention that would sustain this kind of shabby, back-room dealing. I wouldn't have any part of any convention nominee who would support this...
...know the nauseous smell of rotten shrimp paste...