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Word: badly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Harvard's vaunted 4-2-4 offense floundered all afternoon without link men Jaime Vargas and Richie Hardy. Vargas left the game in the third period with a muscle pull while Hardy was sidelined with a strep throat. In addition, high scorer Pete Bogovich was hampered by a bad knee and left the game in the fourth period...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Setback by Penn Knocks Booters To Fourth Place | 11/7/1968 | See Source »

...Sheriff, Sears has promised to make the best of a bad job--he plans to abolish it. The Sheriff oversees the Charles Street Jail, which the police commissioner could do, and the dispensing of patronage, which could be replaced by a merit appointment system...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Sears for Sheriff | 11/4/1968 | See Source »

...latest of Publisher Bernard Geis' calculated jousts with sensationalism is less a matter of bad taste than of no taste. Where Geis' The King and The Exhibitionist were at least spicy, A Moment in Camelot is colorless and odor less and practically endless...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Tedium at the Top | 11/1/1968 | See Source »

...precisely this kind of pretentious writing that has given the nouveau roman a bad name. Not that Duras need be so dull. She has a flair for describing violent action and an undoubted talent for inventing plots. It is simply that she is too ambitious for her fairly limited gifts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Broody Lady | 11/1/1968 | See Source »

...Finian's Rainbow -- A heavyhanded, poorly acted film version of the musical, with nothing but the splendid score and the magnificent Fred Astaire to recommend it. The director, Francis Fred Coppola, has a bad habit of chopping people's hands and feet off; stars Petula Clark and Tommy Steele ought to act their age. At the SAXON, Tremont & Stuart...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Movies and Plays This Weekend | 11/1/1968 | See Source »

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