Word: rottenness
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...those charlatans who encouraged investors to borrow so heavily and to speculate so wildly. And if Americans had soured on the market by the end of the 1930s--and how could they not as the Dow Jones average lost 60% of its value and people came to see how rotten the game had been--Merrill eventually came to the conclusion that someone would have to rekindle the country's faith in the market. He turned to the only man he thought capable of the task: himself...
...fewer vegetables because there simply aren't enough to go around, returns to his shanty and puts them on the makeshift clay oven which uses cowdung cakes for fuel, has the oven blow up on him, salvages the remnants, eats them and promptly falls sick since the vegetables were rotten in the first place due to poor quality controls in agricultural production and no food packaging industry to speak...
...from Seaboard's 40,000 hogs closely confined in 44 metal buildings, where exhaust fans continuously pump out tons of pungent ammonia, mixed with tons of grain dust and fecal matter, scented with the noxious odor of hydrogen sulfide (a poisonous gas produced by decaying manure that smells like rotten eggs), all combined with another blend of aromas wafting from five cesspits each 25 ft. deep and the size of a football field. They are, in effect, open-air sewage ponds, and 75 ft. below lies the Ogallala aquifer, which provides drinking and irrigation water for much of that part...
Third and finally, come to us with concrete plans. For instance, the Core has been rotten for years. Why do you believe that you'll be able to fix it? Yeah, shopping period could be improved, but how are you going to convince the faculty to adopt your reforms. As the Stewart regime has shown, sometimes bread and butter student-life issues are a little more complicated than we'd like to think. Convince us that you've given your tactical plans at least a little thought...
...acts first with Jean, then with his own family. Jean, the youngest and most vulnerable member of the family, becomes the toughest of the three siblings, "the only person in the world who scares me more than...Billy," according to Ray. Ray and his mother, however, react by becoming "rotten coward[s]," ignoring whatever they can and later taking refuge in long-term romantic relationships in an attempt to imitate normality...