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Word: rottenly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...pace with the swelling population. After World War II, efforts at purification were set back further: detergents and other chemical effluents left the lower Thames covered with foam, literally choking the river to death. Deprived of oxygen, one fish species after another vanished. River passengers became ill from the rotten-egg aroma of hydrogen sulfide rising from the polluted waters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: The Tale of Two Rivers | 12/18/1978 | See Source »

...been kind of a rotten year for film. I think we tend not to notice that because the most interesting movies playing around Cambridge are always old ones. But unless you live in New York, your Christmas movie diet may consist of a bunch of first and second-run movies that are mostly third-rate...

Author: By David B. Edelstein, | Title: Christmas Movies | 12/8/1978 | See Source »

...reek o' th' rotten fens, whose...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Class War | 12/4/1978 | See Source »

William G. Mayer '79, an Adams representative, said after Grady introduced his original resolution, "It's a rotten precedent to vote on an important issue when the majority of members are not here...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Assembly Votes To Investigate Library Issue | 11/6/1978 | See Source »

...Evereadys, take matters up to the minute. Young sings several of his unreleased songs. Two of them-a rock-'n'-roll anthem called Out of the Blue and into the Black ("The king is gone but he's not forgotten/ This is a song about Johnny Rotten") and a long, spooky tune called Powderfinger - are among the best things he has done. But Young is not immune to the coyness and irresolution that plague Dylan. Roadies from Star Wars and sound mixers in wizard regalia can get as tiresome as Dylan's mocking show-biz turns...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Dylan and Young on the Road | 11/6/1978 | See Source »

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