Word: badness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Bad news from the pollsters? Well, there's more. The Republican National Congressional Committee claims to have rounded up more than two million new voters, enough to counter Jesse Jackson's registration efforts in the south...
Senior Writer Otto Friedrich, who wrote the cover story, concedes that he has "very bad manners, almost no manners at all. But part of the problem is that nobody can agree on what good manners are. Some women are really offended if you offer them seats or hold their coats." The modern dilemma, according to Friedrich: "If you hold the door for someone, are you being polite, or are you demonstrating that you have better manners than they do, which isn't politeness...
...more than two years, he had run and run. He had stumped in more cities, slept in more hotel beds, flown more miles, spoken more words than any other presidential candidate in history. Now, sitting in his shirtsleeves in a Milwaukee hotel last week, Mondale got the bad news: barring a miracle, his long quest for the White House was over...
...Ronald Reagan is the winner next week, those deficits are going to be just as big and bad as they ever were. If Walter Mondale comes out on top, he may find that the Soviets aren't as eager for a summit as he is-or that Soviet Boss Konstantin Chernenko has checked into a Moscow hospital...
...esoteric information as what color livery the footmen should wear, Elizabeth Post insists that she and her grandmother-in-law both regard etiquette as "a code of behavior, based on kindness and consideration." Says Ann Landers: "Good manners are important because they show how you care about another person. Bad manners indicate a lack of caring." Marjabelle Stewart maintains that "manners will take you places money never could." All the etiquette books now talk of being friendly, kindhearted, relaxed. Use common sense. Avoid snobbery...