Word: badly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Dong Ha incident," they said, was as bad as Ky's refusal to let General Duong Van Minh return from Thailand to campaign for the presidency...
Ridiculous Ruse. This time, Voznesensky is sore at the Union of Writers, the party's all-powerful cultural arm that oversees literary activities in the Soviet Union. It was bad enough that the union turned thumbs down on the invitation he had received to give a poetry reading at the Lincoln Center Summer Festival in Manhattan last June, but the style of the denial, he said, was insufferable. It was not until four days before his departure that the union told him the trip was "inadvisable"-presumably because someone had belatedly remembered the rhapsodic verse he wrote about...
...differs from most other vitamins in a second important respect: too much of it is as bad as too little. Severe or long-term excess causes chalky calcium deposits in arteries, notably the aorta, and in the kidneys, with stone formation and loss of kidney function. Eventually, this can be fatal. To guard...
Whenever Bus was racing, supper at the Mosbacher household was a pretty lively affair. "Why did it take two minutes to get the spinnaker up?" Papa would demand. "Why did you tack when you did?" Recalls Bus: "He was most sparing with his compliments. If I pulled a really bad blunder, I would arrange to have dinner with a friend. On one or two occasions I stayed the weekend." One of Emil Sr.'s concerns was sportsmanship. "He thought it was terrible to file protests," says Bus, "and he always warned me not to get involved in gamesmanship, which...
...said he. "I'd see it through and make sure everything possible was done to see that it never happened again." A letter from former Prime Minister Harold Macmillan, who tapped Robens for the N.C.B. job in 1961, told "Dear Alf" that "the test comes when things go badly-all the more galling when it really isn't our fault but just bad luck...