Word: badness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...called experts did not know how bad Andropov's cold was or even that his wife was alive. Yet these same bleeding hearts felt that President Reagan should have gone to Moscow to pay his respects to Andropov...
...Hampshire votes were still being counted. In an Atlanta suburb, Hart workers who had assembled to watch the results on TV Tuesday night were so enthused by the Senator's sweep that they chipped in $1,000 on the spot and another $8,000 in pledges. "Not bad for a campaign that had been taking in $17,000 a day nationally," observed...
Mondale's vast organization (1,000 volunteers by primary day, 31 paid staff members, labor support and hundreds of phones) did its job, reaching two-thirds of the voters in the state by phone or canvass. But after the third or fourth phone call bad gering them to vote for Mondale, some voters rebelled. As it turned out, only one-third of those contacted by the Mondale camp voted...
...Soviet embassy in Washington from 1973 to 1977, was later tabbed as having been an intelligence agent during that period. Washington read Moscow's attempt to place him for a six-month stay in Los Angeles as a clumsy provocation. "He's a spook, a rather bad spook," said one State Department official. Explained another: "If they had wanted to slip in ringers at the Games, this was not a good way to begin it." Officials said that the U.S. would gladly grant a visa to a legitimate substitute for Yermishkin...
...awning. Then the underdog syndrome took over. While Choi started getting fan letters, Bernstein got 60 obscene phone calls. A writer from Gourmet magazine called her a snob. Customers like a little cause célèbre with then-caviar. Maybe it wasn't such a bad idea after...