Word: badness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...corn that way longer than a few months. If he does,"hot spots" will develop where some corn decomposes, then insects will attack. While he is steward of those half-million bushels, he will probe and test constantly. His nose may be his best insurance. "I can smell bad corn," he says...
...families were finishing their evening meal and settling down for the night when the volcanic lake bed erupted. Some villagers remembered hearing a distant sound. Then a strange odor permeated their huts. "It was like burned gunpowder," suggested one survivor. Another likened it to "eggs, bad eggs." When villagers began to feel dizzy, panic set in. People who were not killed immediately fled into the dirt streets. Many were later found in the bush, their hands vainly clasped over their noses and mouths...
Very much like its brother and sister colleges, Harvard is not happy with the reduced social commitment among undergraduates. Though virtually no one wants to go back to the bad old days of the tumultuous 1960s, morally concerned faculty and students deplore the cautious, somewhat self-centered mind-set that seems to have invaded the campus. However, Senior D. Joseph Menn of Los Angeles, a socialist, makes the point, "There's been too much made of apathy. A better word is disillusionment. People have to worry more about paying off student loans when they get out and competing...
...bright colors can be inflected to deliver bad news too. In Mark's picture of an old man in his single room, a stark but sickly light signals that the indignities of age are no less painful for being suffered in the sunshine. The red label on a jar of coffee peeks from the refrigerator, an emblem of that sparkling world just outside, but the atmosphere is keyed to the humble brown mess at the bottom of his cooking pan. There must be times in this sunny town when the laughs come hard. That picture points to the prime dilemma...
...Bad Preparation, H(arvard...