Word: badly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...below the surface. Flying in from Canberra, Zara Holt walked for hours along the beach, keeping her own lonely vigil and suggesting a few places where searchers might look for the body. "Try the Pope's Eye and the Chinaman's Hat," she suggested. "They are two bad pockets of rocks right in the middle of the current." But there was nothing. Though the police vowed to search indefinitely, Holt's body-likely carried away by strong riptides-may never be found...
...surprising statement, but it reflected a growing awareness in Washington and elsewhere that it is indeed the ex-colonels who rule Greece-and that they are not nearly so bad a choice as some others might...
...diverse is Jersey that the European company even supervises a nine-acre miniature world near Grenoble, France. There Esso sea captains learn how to handle supertankers that will soon reach 800,000 tons in size by steering 15-ton models around waterways, including a replica of one of the bad bends of the Suez Canal...
...Eastern European life, says: "So many people are taking drugs, it's no wonder they are prepared to believe that the Martians are coming." The Poles, who have had an abundance of UFOs but a shortage of meat, are whimsical; they are saying that it is really too bad that the flying platters are as empty as those on earth...
...book's ingenuousness is not all to the bad. The valley is a microcosm of country life, and the young paternalistic squire who owns it wants only to keep it free of the incursions of progress. If the idyllic life he envisions for his tenants has more than a bearable streak of treacle, it is hard to cavil at the squire's well-meant fatherliness. Births, deaths, maids slipping into the shrubbery with the lads of their choice, the dotty and the shrewd, the pleasures of the bed and the hum of local politics-nothing escapes the chronicler...