Word: badly
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...Bad Pupils. Both sides are responsible for the present crisis. Israel has never seriously tried to make peace with the Arabs, from whose land it was carved. The Arabs have never admitted Israel's right to exist. Instead, both sides have engaged in border terrorism that has only served to deepen the hatred between them. Last November, in reprisal for guerrilla raids, Israeli tanks whipped into Jordan-one of its least aggressive neighbors-and shot up a town. Only a month ago, the Israeli air force flew into Syria-which trains and finances most Arab "commando" units -and shot...
That might not be such a bad idea, but local officials and scientists, working for the first time with grants from a laggard Federal Government, are thinking of more down-to-earth solutions. Garbage has been used for years to create dry land from marshes and shallow tidal water; New York's La Guardia Airport is only one famous landmark that was built on refuse. Now Virginia Beach, Va., wants to see if it can turn its trash into a verdant natural stadium, using the leftovers to mold hills for children to play...
...strongest throwing arm of any outfielder in the business: from 420 ft. away, he has fired a perfect strike to the plate to catch a runner trying to score from third. Though he is only 5 ft. 11 in. and 185 Ibs., he can hit any pitch-good or bad, and with power, as Cincinnati Pitcher Milt Pappas found out on that extraordinary day last week...
This is such stuff as bad dreams are made on; and in Argentine Composer Alberto Ginastera's new opera Bomarzo, it is appropriately woven into the gripping nightmare of a tortured spirit. Commissioned by the Washington Opera Society and given its world première last week at Washington's Lisner Auditorium, Bomarzo is based on a prizewinning novel by Buenos Aires Art Critic Manuel Mujica Lainez, who also wrote the libretto. In 15 taut, hallucinatory scenes that take place mostly in the mind of Pierfrancesco Orsini, Renaissance Duke of Bomarzo, it flashes back over the events...
Magraw became the target of bitter criticism from the reformers. Pa-about Magraw's competence and about his interest in the students. But Magraw, it seems, played it very smart. lazzo had very bad things to say He was seconded by John Crocker--chairman of the Dunster House Committee, who drafted a 21-page report on the parietals poll in his House. He realized that so late in the year, after there had already been one change, there was no chance of success for the parietal proposal in the committee. Magraw chose to wait it out. The HUC never touched...