Word: rotting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...serve your own interests. The time has come to satisfy the legitimate aspirations of the Congolese, and at the same time avoid the disappointments of uncontrolled evolution . . . Belgium spontaneously and generously calls the Congo to a near independence." One reply, scrawled with chalk on a Stanleyville wall: "Vive le Rot Kasavubu, Au Revoir Baudouin...
...play, about a middle-aged man who falls in love with a young girl, is headed nowhere. Realizing that he is a has-been, Gable decides to quit Broadway, fires his 22-year-old secretary (Carroll Baker). She turns on him and snarls: "I love you. I hope you rot for spoiling love for me with other men. You did a terrible thing to me. You opened my eyes and heart and never touched me.'' So he touches her. There, by golly, is the twist he needs. The young girl in his play should be the aggressor...
Stouthearted TV viewers have watched 1) alleged stomach acid rot a pocket handkerchiei, 2) elderly couples kissing while an announcement reassured the lovers that a special cleanser would keep their dentures pure, 3) corns the size of pumpkins pried out of plaster toes that could belong to the Colossus of Rhodes, 4) alleged liver bile dissolving a dreadful accumulation of fatty particles. Many a broadcaster is beginning to worry about such tasteless commercials...
...captioned "V for Vicious" instead of "V for Vice." By stating that Galveston is having a wide-open bonanza in gambling and prostitution and that Galveston is the shame of Texas you are not reporting the facts. Also, you commit a gross injustice against our city by spreading such rot all over creation. There are plenty of cities in Texas and in the nation that make Galveston look like Orphan Annie's doll's house...
Lost: Tooth & Growl. Against this gothic backdrop, the contemporary Walter Winchell has become virtually unrecognizable. Gentled by his years-or by something-the aging lion has lost much tooth and growl. The gossip content is redolent with secret mergers, splituations and apartaches, sexcess stories about hat-chicks and rot-and-roll singers, nawdy titles (what a fourcabulary! ), pufflicity seekers. Subdued is the shrill attack and jugular slash. There are more handsome compliments ("Hedda Hopper's attractive hairdo and apparel" ), more sentimental excursions into history ("[George Washington] was the father of our country. Even more-he was a brother...