Word: badness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...could help me understand them. They were certain that Erma was just like the lady in the column, vacuuming around the house and taping funny lines on the fridge. And if she wasn't, they didn't care, and surely I wouldn't find anything bad to report about someone as wonderful as Erma Bombeck-would I? Their injunctions were further reinforced by my seatmate on the flight to Phoenix and by the stewardess, who saw me studying up on Bombeck and who both told me how lucky I was to be traveling to the shrine...
...idea is that the note, once in the chubby fingers of Chernenko, suggests a certain intimacy and shared responsibility that only the two of them can appreciate. The hope is to plant in the Soviet leader's mind the hint that Ron might not be all bad and maybe the two should warm...
...stoplights the way drivers do at 3:30 on a Wednesday morning, observing their warning is considered entirely optional. The standard practice is to slow slightly before the intersection, look quickly, and then zip across. Usually it isn't a big deal but like anything else it leads to bad habits and the problems arise when bicyclists begin challenging drivers, in the same way pedestrians do when crossing the Square. Everyone fights the cars, but this does not make the practice any less stupid...
According to a new Gallup poll, 59% of Democrats want a Mondale-Hart ticket, compared with only 27% who prefer Mondale with an other running mate. The same poll was bad news for the Hart advisers who still hope to draw delegates away from Mondale by arguing that the Senator would run a stronger race against Reagan. It showed the President ahead of Mondale, 53% to 44%, and leading Hart by virtually the same margin...
...bad night in the Kremlin," Edward Wilkinson announced as he hoisted a glass of champagne in mid-Pacific, 4,800 miles from California. Wilkinson, director of U.S. Army effort known as "Homing Overlay Experiment," had good reason to hope for some insomnia in Moscow: his project scored its first success last week. A special interceptor rocket fired from Meek Island in the Kwajalein archipelago had struck the dummy warhead of a Minuteman I intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) that had been launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California some 30 earlier. Military analyst described the collision, which pulverized both projectiles...