Word: baddings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...March 5] luck on his new job, or better I should wish it to his new employer. Sure, the civil service system has faults, but after two years he could only see the negative and decided to give it up. Next to him, mediocrity doesn't look so bad...
...ones. Chief enforcer of his regime was the Mongoose Gang, a ferocious 30-man secret-police unit that he had recruited in the Grenadian underworld. He also attracted crooks and fugitives from justice from abroad, like Eugene Zeek, whom the FBI is seeking for allegedly cashing $1 million in bad checks...
...sure, may be a normal response to some unhappy experience in everyday life. But the enduring pathological kind of depression may well be entirely neurochemical. Says Wyeth Labs Psychopharmacologist Larry Stein: "The normal brain is damned adaptive. It may undergo a short-term depression when things are going bad, but it bounces back when things go well again." The serious depressive, on the other hand, he says, may be "suffering from the biology of his 'good-feeling machinery...
...orchestra members were surrounded by people wanting their autographs. Clarinetist Harold Wright signed his name to a paper and then said, "My God, that's a passport." The Boston players were full of admiration for the students' ability, but shocked by their equipment. Most instruments are either bad or terrible. Strings on violins and cellos are steel-cheap, durable, but incapable, as Ozawa says, of making "a mild tone." The conservatory library is sparse and quirky. If the Chinese were brilliant and intense in their execution, they were also rigid. Said one Boston player, "They have been...
...prominence started from the top. His grandfather owned a prosperous lumber business in the Ukraine and represented the Czar in his provincial town. When he anticipated Czarist pogroms and emigrated to the U.S. in 1888, he brought enough money to think about retiring. The treasure was soon lost through bad investments, but Paley's father Samuel made his own fortune manufacturing cigars. Young Bill joined the family business and quickly proved an adept salesman; one of his special delights was putting together a show called The La Palina Smoker on that new thing everybody was talking about: radio...