Word: badly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Greenway found the very thought of making a phone call particularly ironic. For communications in South Viet Nam are so bad that reporters often spend days in the field without any contact with their office in Saigon. Until he choppered back to Saigon, in fact, Greenway did not know that the files he was writing in the battered outpost were to become a key part in a cover story...
...danger of losing a precious commodity-"patient public support for the whole idea of a limited war." Agreed Maxwell Taylor: "This country is being tested as it never has been since the Civil War. We impatient Americans like the Hollywood solution where the good guy hits the bad guy, and it's all over. We want the quick and easy out. There is none...
...into juvenile delinquents by Nancy Sinatra and television commercials. Teenagers whom I remembered as juvenile delinquents had been transformed into flabby facists by the Record American and television commercials. And students from intown colleges, fat thighs wrapped in white levis, yellow shirt-tails dangling, would make good followers for bad leaders. We were a motley crew, hardly fit to pay homage at the temple...
...that the temple was a monument of stately form. Fenway Park is a misshapen variation on themes in green and grime. It is full of posts and bad seats. The left field wall, built high to convert cheap home runs into cheap doubles, belongs in a pinball game. But, given a choice between the Astrodome and Fenway, one would prefer the latter. On a summer afternoon the park makes delightful patterns of gloomy caverns and sunlit places. It suffers no totalitarian pastel plastic, no carnival scoreboard. It is true to the strange spirit of the city...
...went right over Yastrzemski, and Carl could do nothing to stop a home run that stood between him and an undisputed lead for the Triple Crown. Kaat vs. Santiago. Yastzemski vs. Killebrew. Minnesota vs. Boston. The duals lined up perfectly, and the mind boggled at coincidence. It was a bad sign, that home run, because it was a parting gesture of defiance. A retreating enemy had signaled that it was not beaten...