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Word: rottenness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...takes people who want to fight all that's rotten in the system and takes them back to the Democratic Party," said Alden M. Cavanagh '82, an SYL member...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Democrats | 3/22/1983 | See Source »

...middle of the song, Wynn began baying, Johnny-Rotten-style. Worse, guitar playing game was to synthesization. The band became an act; the rising excitement waned, and the crowd simply gave up and looked on. Later, the group started many other of its pieces well--particularly "The Days of Wine and Roses"--but could never finish one strongly, without breaking off Such laxness stretched the finale to fifteen minutes, brought the average song's length to 8-9 minutes and finally started to drive the fans away...

Author: By Douglas S. Selin, | Title: Sweet Dream | 2/24/1983 | See Source »

...right. In the early thirties he was one of the first to attack the Marxist positions fashionable among writers and critics. An early objector to the House Un-American Activities Committee, he drew McCarthy's public condemnation, though he never actually had to testify. He detested Communism as "rotten with the diseases from which all established police state suffer," but thought it should be combatted not through the reactionary defensiveness of the Eisenhower Administration, but by offering something better than communism to the rest of the world...

Author: By Robert E. Monroe, | Title: Yours Ever, Archie | 2/3/1983 | See Source »

Though a dedicated Republican, McCall spoke against the party and its leadership. He was the first Republican leader to publicly tangle with Vice-President Spiro Agnew. At a 1970 governors' conference in Idaho. McCall received national attention when he called a presentation by Agnew a "rotten, bigoted little speech," and questioned the choice of Agnew as President Nixon's running-mate...

Author: By Thomas J. Meyer, | Title: Nature's Advocate | 1/14/1983 | See Source »

...continue, let the investigation of the massacre run its course. And give Arabs in Israel the chance to express themselves, permit the Sephardim to voice their discontent. Stifling discord, ignoring the problems that any democratic society inevitably encounters will only prove counter-productive and make the Israeli fruit rotten. That is the danger from within...

Author: By Antony J. Blinken, | Title: The Danger Within | 1/14/1983 | See Source »

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