Word: badness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...America, flew to Washington for a speaking engagement two weeks ago, she had no indication that a major staff change was about to take place. National Security Adviser William Clark said nothing about it when they met at the White House, and it was only because she had a bad bronchial infection that she canceled her return to Latin America. She did not hear about her trusted colleague's nomination as Interior Secretary until an aide called the following...
...points linked the embassies of the world's nuclear powers: the U.S., Britain, France, Israel, the People's Republic of China, South Africa, India and the Soviet Union. The protesters chanted "Hop, hop, hop, Atomraketen stop" and other anti-deployment slogans. Outside the Soviet embassy overlooking nearby Bad Godesberg, hooded men in Ku Klux Klan robes hauled a float carrying six models of silver Pershing II missiles, as four white-faced death figures walked behind. Above a crowd of protesters at the British embassy bobbed U.S. flags on which the red stripes were depicted as missiles...
...would threat en the shipment of U.S. oil supplies. In recent months, however, the Cubans have been urging the Grenadian government to seek accommodation with the U.S. to help ease tensions in the region. Last week they seemed concerned that the latest events in Grenada might give Communism a bad name in the Caribbean. Cuban President Fidel Castro condemned the "savage" killings and said that no revolutionary doctrine or principle justified "the physical elimination of Maurice Bishop and the outstanding group of honest and worthy leaders who died...
...Grenada's other neighbors in the crescent of Caribbean island nations, the coup was particularly bad news. Afflicted though many of them are with depressed economies, until now their citizens have been spared violent Latin American-style takeovers. At their meeting in Trini dad, the foreign ministers and heads of state of CARICOM, the organization of Caribbean nations, pondered the crisis in Grenada but understood full well they could not undo the damage...
Theroux cheers up briefly in Wales, possibly because the Welsh language, which he does not understand, makes what is dreary seem exotic. (No doubt travel writers should stick to countries whose languages elude them: bad German, for instance, is an asset in Zurich; you can have a comical adventure asking for a train ticket to Senf, which means mustard, instead of Genf, which is Geneva.) Following the coast turned out to be a mistake, because its towns were filled with a seedier lot of tourists than Theroux would have met in castles and cathedrals...