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Word: badness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...second game started out as a defensive battle, resulting in a scoreless first half. But at the start of the third quarter. SoHo benefited from a bad punt snap on the Kirkland goal line, and the ball rolled out of bounds for a safety and a 2-0 South lead...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Currier, South Gridders Win To Advance in House Playoffs | 11/9/1983 | See Source »

...already hard enough to find a place to eat in Lowell House that they can't afford to break chairs at each performance, but even so the actors handled the mishap with ease. A successful ad lib can lighten a play but a bad one can murder it, and there is already plenty of murder in Ira Levin's comic thriller. So the actors stayed cool, and the tightly constructed, well paced production didn't founder...

Author: By John F. Baughman, | Title: Mind Games | 11/9/1983 | See Source »

...bewildered, reverting to the safe ground of doubt and complaint. The presidential candidates scrutinize and wait, ready to pounce. White House aides bicker among themselves, tempers superheated, judgment clouded by fatigue. Leaks and counterleaks fill the air. The choices for action in both places are not between good and bad, but between terrible and dreadful...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Presidency: The Test of True Leadership | 11/7/1983 | See Source »

...probably wish they could be, and Ihe high school football team manages lo blow its big game against an upscale rival. The only escape route for Stefan Djordjevic (Cruise) is a college sports scholarship, and his prospects look grim: the coach (Craig T. Nelson) thinks Stef has a "bad attitude." He needs Ihe love of his good woman Lisa (Lea Thompson) lo keep him from falling into the slough of his family's steelworker tradition...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Winning Ugly | 11/7/1983 | See Source »

...wisdom of the U.S. invasion of Grenada will be debated for years. The unprecedented exclusion of the American press from that operation requires no debate; clearly it was a bad mistake, an outrage to press freedom and an ominous symptom of a tendency in the Reagan Administration to try to control the flow of information...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: Trying to Censor Reality | 11/7/1983 | See Source »

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