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  • The Party of Creeping Rot is a better description of the GOP.

    BREAKING: Top House Dem to announce retirement 2010

  • Rot is zillions of bacteria eating the muscle cells, their waste products creating the familiar stench of decaying flesh.

    Deer: Hang Time 2006

  • Deanna Laney, known as Rot (ph) Mom, beat her two sons to death by crushing their heads with a stone.

    CNN Transcript Nov 10, 2006 2006

  • Too bad nobody's made a movie called Rot in Hell, You Blind Limey

    Hot Air » Top Picks 2009

  • Too bad nobody's made a movie called Rot in Hell, You Blind Limey.

    Hot Air » Top Picks 2009

  • The country may be near collapse, corroded from within, unable to govern amid ungovernable decay (this is the chapter called Rot), but savage injustice fuels constant resistance.

    Books news, reviews and author interviews | guardian.co.uk 2009

  • When you hear that our Go Green Initiative School of the Week is located in Groton, NY and has a terrific lunch scrap recycling program called Rot-N-Groton, you know they†™ ve got both a sense of humor and a knack for getting students involved in cool ways recycling and putting together a greener campus.

    TreeHugger 2008

  • On page 303 of Rise And Fall, Blomberg's basic scenarios for possible armed conflict are introduced, "Strategic Concentration 'Rot'" and "Strategic Concentration 'Gruen.'"

    FallNet - Hovis set-up in London's psoriasis 1998

  • "Rot," jerked out Grosman; "well, if you want to go to your damned old place, do so."

    A Rip Van Winkle Of The Kalahari Seven Tales of South-West Africa Frederick Cornell

  • "Rot," said I. "Jonah would have done it with a quarter of an hour to spare."

    Jonah and Co. Dornford Yates 1922

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