Word: badly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Mayor Joseph Barr of Pittsburgh looked up at darkened skies and quipped: "Rain, very bad for elections. Can't get out the vote when it rains." But the observers were cheerfully optimistic: "I look forward to a successful election," said Senator George Murphy of California. "It will not be unlike an election in Beverly Hills...
When it is the end of August and Jack Nicklaus has won only $106,748, there is obviously something wrong with his game. Nothing, though, that rain and a bad dream won't cure...
...jumpers who took off last week from Ortner Field in north-central Ohio had each taken the plunge more than 100 times, and they were awaiting yet another rhapsodic game with gravity. By a concatenation of unbelievable stupidities, their "fun jump" became a tragically bad trip...
...toothpaste, it is soap." As for the theater, it has become "terribly lightweight." Worse, a U.S. actress is all too often typecast: "Here it is the personality that they like, more than the performance. People popped all of us into little boxes. If they wanted someone to be a bad woman, they opened the little box marked Bette Davis. If they wanted a saintly woman, they opened the little box marked Ingrid Bergman...
...take the position that they are helping their holdings to grow syn-ergistically-by monitoring them for signs of trouble, providing them with computer and research services and risking money on projects they might not undertake on their own. Diversification has obvious benefits for the conglomerates, buffering them against bad weather within a single industry. To Andrew Carnegie's dictum to "put all your eggs in one basket and watch them," Gulf & Western's Bluhdorn replies: "If you have all your eggs in one basket, then you're stuck with those eggs...