Word: badly
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...When Harvard, or any university, sends in storm troopers to bust the heads of innocent children seeking to discover the relationship of their university to the world, I can only conclude that the university is trying to hide evidence of various actions, various bad actions, such as expansion into surrounding urban areas, or research for the War Department (somehow the old name seems more appropriate), or connections with the CIA. Such actions are wrong; they are tantamount to murder. And just as any self-respecting citizen would act to prevent a murder, we students must act to prevent the university...
Born in Tempe, Ariz., a little agricultural town south of Phoenix, Finch was introduced early to political life by his father, a cotton farmer and one of a handful of Republicans in the state legislature. Three bad harvests in a row forced a move across the state line, and in 1930 Robert Finch Sr. took a job as a sales manager in San Francisco. Two years later, the family transferred to Southern California, where his son has lived ever since. Young Bob was deeply influenced by his father, and when he died of cancer in 1941, Finch struck out almost...
Israel's Premier Golda Meir admitted last week that "if the Big Four should reach agreement, then Israel is in a bad spot," since that would mean big-power pressures to withdraw from the occupied territories on terms negotiated by others. Yet as Israel celebrated its 21st anniversary as a state last week, what should have been a joyful occasion was overshadowed by a sense of siege, evidence enough that Israel has suffered as much as any other country involved from the post-1967 stalemate...
...year 1692 was a very bad year for the town of Salem, Mass. During a summer of superstitious hysteria, grim events took place there that have permanently tarnished the popular American memory of its Puritan past. According to widely accepted tradition, the whole thing was whipped up by Cotton Mather and the lesser clergymen of a frowning theocracy. Before it was over, the story goes, 19 men and women were convicted and hanged as witches, and one man was pressed to death beneath large rocks for refusing to plead. The tradition holds that the executions were the result...
...this to the fact that both crews are about the same height and weight (Harvard averages 6' 21/4", 194 pounds; Penn, 6'3", 193 pounds), and the result comes out to the Eastern rowing season. It is so bad that neither coach will make a concrete prediction...