Word: badness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Andy May's lawyers pictured him as a sad and spavined man, plagued with a bad heart, failing eyesight and hearing, and the pangs of near-poverty. Andy's lawyer pleaded that a prison term would bar him from ever holding public office or practicing law again in his native state. (His lawyers did not mention that May, despite his conviction, gets a lifetime federal pension of about $3,400 a year for his 16 years in Congress.) His doctor was even more persuasive. He told the court that a prison term might actually kill old Andy...
...cabinet include some Protestants, with whom he works well. Politically, he is a Christian Democrat. He was a firm anti-Nazi and is an equally firm antiCommunist. He has a profound distaste for socialism. He has told Americans: "To many people, socialism is all right, only national socialism is bad. I say socialism-if it runs its course-must ultimately become national socialism...
...bad news had been labeled "Top Secret" but it had leaked out. One leak was Colorado's Senator Edwin C. Johnson, member of the Congressional Joint Committee on Atomic Energy, who unwarily blurted it out on a television program in an argument for tighter security regulations. The news: the Russian atomic bomb contained plutonium...
...first bad news had come from the Air Force, which for four years has been DDTing the marshes near Cocoa, Fla. with signal success. But this year, massed mosquito formations roared out of the swamps once again to puncture young & old. The Air Force fought back with more DDT, but it could not regain command of the air. The Department of Agriculture discovered that the Air Force defeat was due to a new, tough breed of mosquitoes...
Sloth slept with his eyes wide open in a sticky skein of cobwebs, and Anger was a spiky, comic-book monster which had just smashed a blood-spattered plate-glass window. Lust, the shock of the group-as well as the bottom in bad taste-was a leering, loathsome human figure, festooned with genitalia and en-ries cased in a prophylactic tube...