Word: badness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...because of waves of dirt that she claims are blowing off his plowed acreage and onto her homestead. Says she: "There's nothing but dust out there. You can't breathe." Admonishes Bill Brown, a Montana rancher: "The Government shouldn't be subsidizing bad farming practices...
...John Paul sowed in the hearts and minds of Poles as he traveled across his native land will take months to mature. But, just as when he first returned as Pope in 1979, it was clear that something undefinable but palpable had changed. Whether that was good news or bad was another question. The first trip produced the optimism and euphoria that led to the creation of Solidarity, but it would be difficult to dare hope this time that anything but more frustration, hardship and agony lay in store for the long-suffering Polish nation...
...matter of a few glances between professionals, and the act itself had been high sport, the Wimbledon finals of sex. Now the match was over, and Bond, instead of steeling himself for a stray tarantula under the sheets, found himself ruminating. Was she the good woman or the bad one? In each of his assignments, it seemed, there was always one of each. That makes 24, no, 26 of them, each one flawless and passionate, each succeeding pair more considerate of his advancing age. Did spies get performance anxiety, or herpes? Or just bored with the reproduction of perfection...
...sees Reagan as intuitive, at times impulsive. He discerns shortcomings even in the man's virtues: the President's belief in personal charity obstructs his understanding of the need for Government-run social justice programs; his boundless optimism can make him unable to hear, let alone accept, bad news on budget deficits. Though Barrett insists that Reagan is complex, the book portrays a man whose views are based largely on personal experience and whose approach to issues can be disarmingly simple: in dealing with the Soviets, for example, Reagan tends to equate diplomacy with weakness...
...logic behind writing one's own vows is not all bad. It is very American: the kids going into business for themselves and wanting to define precisely what the terms of the enterprise are to be. Good luck. The self-made ceremony expresses a kind of romantic individualism (not to say, sometimes, narcissism) that wants to reclaim the event from its bloodless institutional routine and make it mean something wondrous and memorable. Marriage is, one thinks at the start, a long journey. The couple want a bright send-off at the station to think about during those interminable stretches...