Word: rotting
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...doing all these things, and his dexterity enabled him to fashion crude stone tools with a cutting edge to slice up his victims after he killed them. Strangely, he often seemed to prefer to cut off the heads of animals or fellow man-apes, leaving the bodies to rot in the veld. This may have been because he had a taste for brains (he frequently bored a small hole in the skulls of his victims...
THAT'S no ulcer . . . That's rot-0the rot that works in the belly of all you big shots." Thus, the hero of the latest novel about U.S. business, Company Man by John G. Burnett (Harper; $3.50), castigates his spineless section chief for caving in to the pressure of office politics. On the surface, Author Burnett's tale, revolving about a big U.S. airline, is merely one more in the long list of novels, from Frank Norris' The Octopus to Sinclair Lewis' Babbitt and John Dos Passos' The Big Money, that show businessmen...
...fauna into the hurt eyes of the cuckolded husband (John Mills, making his American TV debut), or capturing the guilt written across the sallow face of the barrister (Michael Rennie) who helps Leslie beat the rap. With pace and polish, Wyler distilled all the steamy Maugham atmosphere and dry rot of colonial life, brought believability to some papier-mache archetypes. Oldtime Cinemactress Anna May Wong, as the blackmailing mistress of the murdered cad, peered with good effect through the inevitable beaded curtains...
...rooms with windows, for walls which do not rot, for contempt for papers, for a holy human time for a safe return home...
Only morons would pay money for a book based on such untruth and rot. The Bible, the best seller of all time, sets forth in no uncertain terms the nature of man, and nowhere in its entirety can be found a reference to reincarnation...