Word: rottenness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...baby commenced wailing again, its mother sighed and stared out the window of the un-moving train. The girl shook her head at her watch. The auxiliary train came up behind the filled train and as it moved towards Kendall Square, the boy said, "Man, this is really rotten service...I can't believe she wanted us to pay for it. That just ain't fair...
SOMETHING IS ROTTEN on the island of St. Nicholas and it's not the smell of oil-covered flesh frying in the tropical sun. It's not even the evil machinations of several fatcats planning on buying these unspoiled Caribbean beaches to build their dream highrise resort. What's rotten here is the acting, script and theme all mixed up in a noxious concoction of a movie...
...most satisfying in terms of both content and the fact that we came from behind." Opponents were more pessimistic, predicting that the aid would lead to greater U.S. military involvement in support of a corrupt rebel force. Said Michigan Democrat David Bonior: "The contra program has been rotten from the start...
...taken shape and tone from the demands of its audience. The American male likes to believe that he is reading it like it is, and the novel of the modern knight-errant is very much a male genre. It operates on the rigid belief that the world is rotten; to think otherwise is dangerous and unmanly. A corollary view is that the deck is stacked against the decent little guy or distressed damsel. The evidence often seems overwhelming. The shattering aftereffects of World War I, the rise of organized crime during Prohibition, the disillusionment of the Depression, all paralleled...
...your grandchildren on your knees, point to your face in the varsity soccer picture and reminisce about the day you saved by booting in the tie-breaking goal. Or you can grin and sigh as you find a candid shot of your old roommates beaning each other with rotten vegetables in the Adams House Raft Race...