Word: badness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Early one spring morning in 1945, the Rev. Archie Mitchell and his 26-year-old wife rounded up five of their Sunday-school class, drove into the mountains near Bly, Ore. for a day's fishing. Luck was bad at first and Mitchell walked back for the car. Returning, he saw the rest of the party gathered in a semicircle, curiously examining a mysterious object they had discovered in the woods. The kids had stumbled upon one of the 9,000 balloon bombs launched from Japan against the U.S. West Coast...
...bad luck, you know," said Mr. Hawkings, a trim man in grey flannels. "Yes," agreed Mrs. Hawkings, "things were a bit tight last night. For the first time in my life I slept with my shoes...
...within 300 miles of the refugee Nationalist capital in Canton. In Canton, Garrison Commander Yeh Shao issued a proclamation declaring the city to be in a state of war, advised citizens who could to return to their native villages. One member of the legislative yuan criticized Yeh. "It is bad to talk like this," he said. "If we think the Communists may take Canton, they'll take all China...
...Bad Luck." When the Communists started their drive up from the southwest, Gladys Hawkings opened the big red doors of her walled compound and let in scores of refugees...
...observer at Ohio State told the CRIMSON that Phillips was brought in deliberately to force the administration's hand on the issue of political speakers. He remarked that it was a bad time to try to change University policy because the state legislature is now discussing the O.S.U. budget...