Word: badly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...whether the world's richest nation might not be wise to cast its currency loose from a metal that Lenin once said was fit only to build public toilets. Behind this question is the sound conviction that the dollar, backed by the powerful U.S. economy, is not as bad as gold. At home and abroad, most monetary experts believe that the gold-exchange system is on the way out. The question is how-and with what-to replace...
...only did Harvard rebound from its recent bad showings, but it came on after giving the Bruins an opening minute goal. Diercks, who had ridden the bench in Harvard's last three games, saw Bob Devaney light Brown's light after 33 seconds of play...
...long Christmas lay-off was costly for Harvard as they were repeatedly outplayed by the aggressive Eagles. Sloppy stick-handling and bad timing marred the Crimson effort as B.C. intercepted numerous passes. Two thefts were converted into scores past goalie Captain Bruce Durno...
...long-held suspicion that the Beatles are four rather pleasant young men who have made so much money that they can apparently afford to be contemptuous of the public." In reply, Paul could only say: "Aren't we entitled to have a flop? Was the film really so bad compared with the rest of the Christmas TV? You could hardly call the Queen's speech a gasser...
...Bomb at the Club. Macmillan's tone is just right-involved yet detached, never querulous but capable of showing marked distaste, even derision, for some of the bad actors in the great drama of this century. He is never grandiloquent, and for this reason the reader is likely to trust him more than Winston Churchill, whose rhetorical afflatus invites suspicion that the great man perhaps tended to force history into his own dramatic cast of mind. It was, however, as Churchill's man, his emissary (his "dogsbody" as the English say, or his gillie, as a Scottish laird...