Word: badness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...court-martial reduced the charge against 25-year-old Sailor Williams from desertion to unauthorized absence, on the testimony of Navy doctors that he suffered from "psychiatric amnesia." Then they sentenced him to three years in prison, remitted the sentence, gave him a bad-conduct discharge, and packed him off to San Francisco's Treasure Island to await final action. There last week he learned that Secretary of the Navy Francis Matthews had set aside the court's sentence. The Navy ushered Williams back into civilian life...
...constitutional guaranties of personal liberty are not always absolutes . . . [Dr. Warren violated the law] under his asserted philosophy that he had a right to disobey a Federal law which he believed to be detrimental to mankind. A person may not decide to himself whether a law is good or bad and if bad, that he is free to disobey...
...careful about his clothes. You will never see a spot of dirt or cigarette ash on his suit, and that is not simply because his servants remove the stain. It is because he does not soil his clothes. When a suit gets dirty by accident, that is not so bad, but it is unpardonable to see the day's menu on the lapel of one's suit. By carefully avoiding dirt we not only save cleaning fluid, but the suit will last longer...
Receiving the opening kickoff deep in their own territory, Eliot started a down-field march which brought them to the Adams 32. With a fourth down and eight yards to go it appeared that their attack bad stalled, but a desperation pass, Jim Lowell to Major Close, clicked to the Adams six yard line. Jim Rossiter took the ball off tackle for the score and Lowell's conversion made the score seven to nothing...
Encouraged, he brought in his heavy points against an opposing slate, that of the Cambridge Civic Association. He pointed out that the CCA claimed to be a good government group. This was definitely a bad thing. He had a case in point to prove...