Word: badness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...accredited visitor at the sixth assembly of the World Council of Churches, and as near as I am able to ascertain, your reporter must have attended a different meeting. The assembly was the most exciting event of my lifetime. It is too bad your reporter missed the whole event...
...some farmers, the drought is not all bad...
...quite nothing: while much of the nation's breadbasket has turned to toast, the news is decidedly mixed. According to the Government, the drought is not yet as bad, overall, as 1980's savage hot spell. And there is more palpable consolation for farmers: the shrunken harvests (perhaps 4.5 billion bu. of corn, vs. 8.4 billion bu. in 1982) have helped reduce enormous surpluses, thus pushing some recent cash prices higher than they had been in nearly a decade-74% above last year's dismal levels. And last week a bit of rain did fall from Topeka...
...National Guard helicopter swooped down onto a field of sorry, 6-in.-high cornstalk stumps. "I can personally feel the pain," he said as he looked out over Farmer Richard Weiss's acreage, "because I have looked at my own fields. They're not this bad, but they're bad." Block owns a 3,000-acre corn and soybean farm near the Mississippi River...
...country. "Two groups were on the boatlift: those who came and those who were sent," explains Miami-based Painter Victor Gomez, who says he arranged to be falsely classified as a delinquent to join the exodus. "It was Castro's diabolical strategy to give all Cuban exiles a bad image and get rid of antisocials...