Word: badness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Although Koehler didn't have a bad day statistically (11-for-20, 99 yards, one interception), he missed a couple of open receivers downfield and was sacked five times. He had very little protection...
Portman's $8 million vacation house is not yet finished, but sightseers are flocking to it, and some of his neighbors are knocking it. "This bad taste is being foisted on us for the sake of an ego trip," sniffed one. Protested another: "I'm a fan of his architecture, but this abuses the environment." Dismayed by the reaction, Portman refuses to discuss the project. Still, the opposition has its social limits. Asked if residents would snub the Portmans when the family moves in, one islander replied, "Lord, no. We'll be waiting / at the door for an invitation...
...fatherless boy who held a lot of "anger that has never been directed. In my inward life, I still boil a lot." So it is no surprise that many of King's books could be fairly called "The Revenge of the Nerds": the ursine kid with the bad eyes and the shambling gait would find a way to get his own back, even if it took him 20 years -- especially if it took him 20 years...
...same time that several teammates were explaining to the National Collegiate Athletic Association how they came to lease rather luxurious cars, Testaverde was getting along on a bicycle. Someone stole it. "I don't know whether it's always been this bad," says the Miami Herald's longtime sports editor, Edwin Pope, "or whether we're just paying more attention to the players' conduct since they've been winning. The easy atmosphere that attracts them here is the very thing that gets them into trouble. Trouble's not as easy to find in frozen little places in the Midwest, although...
...Pretoria the government had been getting ready for bad news from Washington for more than a week. Foreign Minister Roelof ("Pik") Botha repeated the conventional argument that if the congressional bill survives the Reagan veto, "it will have a damaging effect on the jobs of many people, black and white. It will harm us, but it will not kill...