Word: badly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Bacon continues to hold back the pressing armies of bad government while leading Chicago to a better, cleaner life. If he is scarred by the bomb scare, the tension of often being close to losing his job, and the continuous personal criticism, he does not outwardly show it. All he has to say to the problems his personality creates is "We don't have any solution but to get to work before seven and quite after six to allow time for this silliness and our real business...
...Going to Stay." In a public move to stanch the nation's unrest, the President decided to turn an address to the National Legislative Conference in San Antonio into a major policy speech. His timing, uncharacteristically, was bad. Only NBC-TV aired him live. As a result, most Americans missed a hard-hitting speech, briskly delivered without...
...Liberals "must divest themselves of the notion that the nation, especially the cities, can be run from agencies in Washington." Because the Federal Government is "good at collecting revenues and rather bad at disbursing services," federal money should be shared generously with state and local authorities on a "permanent, ongoing basis." Initiative in using the money should be left to the locality. "Let us be frank. The original, determining opposition to this proposition has come from liberals, not conservatives, in Washington, and we should be ashamed of ourselves...
...strong was his love for the sport that last summer he persuaded his brown-haired bride Rickie, 22, to share it with him. Her first jump was perfect, though she laughed about landing in a mud puddle. The second time up, last August, she left the plane in a bad body position-back arched toward the ground. Rickie became entangled in her main chute lines, her reserve chute snarled and, as John Wasik watched from the ground, she fell to her death...
Though Shannon thinks that John Kennedy established a bad precedent by appointing his brother Attorney General, he praises Bobby's conduct of the office. But he feels that Bobby's record in the Senate is far less laudable. "He is overextended and overscheduled," says Shannon, and while he concedes that Bobby is no longer "the two-dimensional, self-righteous young man of a decade earlier," he shares the skepticism of many Bobby-watchers concerning the genuineness of his transformation: "It is impossible to determine definitively where honest growth ends and alert opportunism begins...