Word: badly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Beyond the confines of Cambridge, today will be the Ivy League's dullest day. The remainder of the loop's card matches three "good" teams against three "bad" teams--the kind of day predicters need to boost their percentages...
...requires that public-TV programming be "objective and balanced." That catch phrase is scarcely helpful; taken to an extreme, it could be downright silly, Says Hartford Gunn, manager of Boston's WGBH, the nation's outstanding public-TV channel: "If we have a program saying pollution is bad, does this mean we have to do a program saying pollution is good...
...sweepstake. He croons, too, in a big, booming baritone that, on his five bestselling albums, sounds vaguely like, well, a fellow hollering down a drainpipe. On the state-fair cir cuit, he harvests $25,000 for an appearance in which he tells a few jokes ("The tornado was so bad a hen laid the same egg twice") and does songs (She Was a T-Bone Talking Woman but She Had a Hot-Dog Heart}. In Las Vegas, he sings "You load 16 tons and what do you get? A hernia." That's good for $40,000 a week...
...effects of the bad growing season have rippled all through California's multimillion agricultural empire. Late fruits reached canneries at the same time as on-schedule tomatoes, causing so much of a jam that a great deal of fruit spoiled while it was waiting to be canned. Farmers, with their orchards maturing late, had no schoolchildren available to help harvest the crops, and the supply of temporary Mexican labor has been reduced since the law covering the use of braceros was tightened three years ago. Governor Reagan angered unions by permitting convicts to help with the harvest...
...profession of the fornicatrix has fallen upon seedy days. Rank amateurs have driven out the pros, giving the career field a bad name, and today's courtesans would rather provide grist for the sociologist's mill than salt for the Sunday supplements...