Word: badly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...time was split between shooting people and making plans of how to shoot more people; everyone around me was sure they were doing the right thing, and they rationalized the bad by saying that it was the price that has to be paid," Sloan said. "The people I was with were not fanatics, they were thoroughly regular people who were isolated form others with a different opinion of the war," he continued...
...insecurity occasionally reared its head during the Piston, it was certainly in full view throughout the Mahler. The orchestra's performance was rife with premature entrances, bad ensemble, sloppy (though assidious) passagework and poor intonation. On the whole, the woodwinds came off better than the strings, though everyone seemed to be working hard. Marilyn Malpass was a model concert-mistress, at all times attentive to the conductor and heroically attempting to bring the rest of the section along with her. Oboist Carl Schlaikjer was shaky in the second movement, but recovered by the sixth and spun out some...
...keep current he had already taken out $265,000 in bank loans, plus another $105,000 against his life insurance, and put up for sale several paintings, including Moro's Mary Tudor. Once a federal court ruled last March that Guest alone was responsible for Aerovias' bad debts, it was only a question of time before a federal marshal showed up at the Guests' Long Island estate. In August, he started tagging their paintings and objets d'art. Winston Guest went to court to stave off the indignity of a marshal's sale...
...Martin and Clayton Fowler (previous client: Jack Ruby) to sue Warner Bros, for $1,025,000. The film, it is alleged, "blackened" the memory of Bonnie and injured the reputation of Billie Jean, who offers some support of the claim: "One time Bonnie's leg was burned real bad in a car wreck. It took $9-a-day worth of Unguentine to put on her leg. Clyde had to rob places." Besides, she adds, "we used to take Bonnie pretty clothes. They didn't go around like a bunch of tramps...
Mayer's inversions are often tragically funny in context; Drew again, on being excluded from the business operations: "Them boys is getting a damn sight too cute." Fisk's dialog masterfully combines bad grammar and vernacular with innumerable phrases from the Bible. "Poor suffering bastards," he yells at the crowd he has cheated, "You want your money? It has gone where the woodbine twineth...