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Word: rottenness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...think I was pretty human before I was divorced. Mine was not a terribly painful, miserable, rotten divorce with animosity and anxiety. I just knew that my life was going to have to change, and I was determined that I was going to make it better. The divorce was going to improve my life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Interview with ANN LANDERS: Living By the Letter | 8/21/1989 | See Source »

With the Exxon Valdez disaster still grim and fresh in memory, any new spill would suffice to trigger a bad case of public jitters. As rotten luck would have it, last weekend brought three spills in a little more than twelve hours...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Summer of The Spills | 7/3/1989 | See Source »

...French newspaper Le Monde. "As the guardian of party orthodoxy and authority, his aims are political, not personal." Ultimately at stake, perhaps, is the corruption of official life that is being exposed by the new politics. As Tatu notes, "There's been a general awakening as to just how rotten the regime...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Soviet Union Back-Alley Politics in the Kremlin | 5/29/1989 | See Source »

...strangest thing from my point of view is the way that this feeling about the United States being a rotten country was that the people responsible for that were universities," Pusey adds. "This I find absolutely shocking, that anyone could have been at Harvard and come to an idea like that. I thought it would have to be a damn fool...

Author: By Adam K. Goodheart, | Title: 'And Don't Think Young People Can't Be Evil' | 4/7/1989 | See Source »

Homophobia exists on campus to be sure--as the scribbled message "Harvard faggots die" indicates. However, to use this to brand the Harvard/Radcliffe heterosexual community as overwhelmingly intolerant is making the tempting mistake of calling the whole bushel rotten because of a few rotten apples. The fact is that Harvard is overwhelmingly tolerant...

Author: By Bill Tsingos, | Title: Questionable Tactics | 3/7/1989 | See Source »

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