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Word: badly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Some very bad blood, however, still flowed beneath the public explanations. It is widely rumored that the Kennedy family was angry--angry over the residents' opposition, angry that a memorial to the late president had been raked over the coals of controversy. At a caucus during the final meeting, Kennedy family members are said to have acquiesced to Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis's wishes that the UMass site be chosen. Sources close to the library corporation say that while discussion at the decisive meeting focused on logistical problems of a split-site, the vote was more influenced by perceptions of citizens...

Author: By Robert O. Boorstin, | Title: The Library That Got Away | 10/12/1979 | See Source »

...delighted the Pope will be in Boston on Yom Kippur. Too bad he came too late to resurrect...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Mail to the Director's Chair | 10/11/1979 | See Source »

...field was pretty bad, but we had played the whole game on it," Crimson Captain John Sanacore said afterward. "A tie on the road is fine for them. But if the ref stopped the game then, he should have stopped it earlier and replayed it," Crimson captian John Sanacore said yesterday...

Author: By Laurence S. Grafstein, | Title: Booters Knot Amherst, 1-1 | 10/11/1979 | See Source »

While lines like "Men aren't all bad, just 92 per cent bad" ring hollow, worshippers of Texan jargon strike oil in Whorehouse. But you can find choicer idioms in the glorious novels of Peter Gent and Dan Jenkins. Those novels aren't pretentious; this play is. It strains to hard to mock every Texan myth that the effect is laughable, more than laudable. So see it and laugh--after all, John Connally may be the next president. And John Tower reportedly liked it. Hot damn...

Author: By Laurence S. Grafstein, | Title: Dead Solid Texas | 10/9/1979 | See Source »

...Coming Bad Years. Ruff...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FICTION: Best Sellers | 10/8/1979 | See Source »

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