Word: badly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...scene might have been a Southern county courthouse in the bad old days, with a white registrar administering a literacy test designed to confound even the best-educated Negro. Actually, the setting was a U.S. Senate chamber, and the Negro was Solicitor General Thurgood Marshall, who seeks to vote not in a Southern election but as an As sociate Justice of the Supreme Court...
...Hospital, Negro women nibble starch in times of stress as a form of "inexpensive psychiatry." Many Negroes believe that starch prevents nausea during pregnancy. Indeed, some doctors agree that starch probably does soothe "morning sickness," though probably only for psychological reasons. Unfortunately, the other effects are all bad...
...Bad Psychology. Opponents of the bill were uneasy about giving legal sanction to big dailies to consolidate on grounds as vague as economic "failure." "It is unnecessary and psychologically bad," said New York Times Gen eral Counsel Louis M. Loeb, "for the press to take advantage of its political influence to get special advantages that other businesses do not enjoy." Loeb saw no reason for the Government to interfere with most joint operations, unless the "cooperating papers agree to fix rates below what may be justified for the purpose of obtaining an advantage at the expense of competition...
...impose on it the same night marish maze of regulations that the Interstate Commerce Commission ap plies to REA's parents. Without special ICC permission, REA cannot haul goods from city to city by truck; instead it must put the goods on a train - no mat ter how bad the connection - and ar range pickup and delivery at the other end. Last week its railroad owners at last gave up, and offered to sell the operation to the highest bidder...
...readers. The issue is now out, however, and the effects of the cultural revolution are salient: the 20-page production contains only seven meager articles (none related to each other), costs a piddling 35 cents on the newstands (or free in Bow Street trash barrels), and is generally not bad...