Word: badly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Lewis became president of the United Mine Workers, a post he was to hold until 1960. During his first decade as union chief, economic conditions and his own mistakes almost destroyed the U.M.W. Faced with difficulties, he sought to offset bad publicity by launching a witch hunt for supposed Communists in the union. Between 1920 and 1930, dues-paying membership shrank from more than 400,000 to fewer than...
...would you rather take this [a fatal drug], we put you behind your wheel, we don't have to embarrass your family.' That's what they should have done to Willie. Sure, that man never should have been disgraced like that." Added DeCavalcante: "It leaves a bad taste. We're out to protect people." At times, the mob seems to have a conscience...
Motor Damage. Whether Innere Führung is at fault, or something else, the Bundeswehr is in bad shape. The No. 1 problem is manpower-the army is 3,500 officers and 32,000 noncoms short. Since German bureaucratic traditions dictate that all desk jobs be filled first, it is the field and training units that are the most undermanned...
...knows the Irish will even deny that they're witty, to make a point, and declare that English influence was the ruination of them. But the mixture of humors has given them a literature which-if you phrase the question right-they will admit is not altogether bad...
...manual also contains instructions on how to make oneself afraid, including terse scary stories. One is about a man who squeezes a tiny woman out of a tube of toothpaste. Another poor fellow discovers blood leaking from minuscule teeth marks under his watch band. Not bad-though for chilling empathy, neither surpasses an anonymous genius's unpublished masterpiece about sliding down a bannister and having it suddenly change into a razor blade...