Word: scum
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Wagener prefers to probe weaknesses that excuse his own fall from power. He sees Hitler as a poor administrator and a bad judge of human nature. It follows that his Volk hero is surrounded by "simpletons, mindless scum, and flatterers," most notably Himmler, Goebbels, and Göring, who greets Wagener in a red dressing gown and scarlet slippers with turned-up toes. To anyone familiar with office politics, this is a calculated rudeness. Wagener does not seem to get the message. Ever the intellectual snob, he sees Göring as a mental patient rather than a shrewd realist who knows...
...inquiring reader of 1982 the comparative calm of the Lindbergh Case last week was important. The scum of early reportorial confusion--result of keen newspaper competition and official impatience with the Press--had begun to be skimmed off the story. Facts hitherto obscured by haste and hysteria were clear. Also, it began to seem as though trails to the solution were converging...
...just as delicate six-party talks, including North Korea, were about to begin discussing Pyongyang's nuclear-weapons program in 2003, Bolton delivered a speech excoriating Kim Jong Il as the "tyrannical dictator" of a country in which "life is a hellish nightmare." Pyongyang responded by calling Bolton "human scum...
Some people will say that words like scum and rotten are wrong for Objective Journalism - which is true, but they miss the point
...combined inspections of Dunster and Mather dining halls, which share a kitchen, found 13 total violations, the highest number in the College and up from six violations last April. Though problems over the past two years have included rust in the ice machine, scum buildup and keeping raw meat too close to food that’s ready to be served, this fall’s were relatively minor. They included missing labels on containers, a broken salad bar light and no thermometer in the refrigerator...