Word: botch
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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China clearly had not won a decisive military victory that would have achieved the stated goals of the invasion: to "punish" the Vietnamese and to dis courage them from future bor der harassments. As military operations go, the invasion was something of a botch. It had been telegraphed in advance, and had thereby robbed the Chinese army of the element of surprise. The Vietnamese were able to keep their regular army units out of action as the Chinese launched "human wave" charges in their assault across the border and early in the righting even employed horseback troops with tootling buglers...
...countless fairy tales. At times it even seems trite. Dave, the handsome gypsy, takes up with Susan, a rich blonde American girl. Dave, the dark and mysterious gypsy, dreams of California. And, typically, neither the romance nor the emigration can ever come to pass. Although Groffo's hired killers botch their job, they manage to gash Dave's face. Susan is too horrified to help and not gypsy enough to understand. Dave turns to Sharon, his mother's friend, who has had her eyes on him for a while. After washing his wound she puts Zharko's medallion--which Dave...
...answer to this quandary is the free will theory formulated by St. Augustine. As the Rev. Stephen Duffy of New Orleans' Loyola University summarized it last week: "God freely decided to limit his own freedom and put no limit on ours. We certainly are capable of making a botch of it." If God had programmed all human beings to be good, he explains, there might be no evil, but there would be no virtue either. God chose to let man choose...
Computer problems delayed the release of the report because the private firm asked to run the computer program needed in the study "did a real botch job," Reiling said Monday...
...What a botch The Big Sleep is! First, it is an entirely unnecessary movie. Howard Hawks adapted Raymond Chandler's classic detective story 30-odd years ago and he did it right: Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall played the leading roles and Chandler's essential mood, at once cynical, gloomy and absurdist, remained intact. As that film is available on TV and in memory's theater, there is no reason to try to duplicate it. There is absolutely no reason to rip Chandler's immortal gumshoe, Philip Marlowe, from his natural milieu, Los Angeles...