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...crime allegedly committed by the CIA could in any way match the supreme crime of feeding its employers with the incredible mass of misinformation which has made a botch of U.S. foreign policy from the Bay of Pigs onward...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Forum, Jul. 14, 1975 | 7/14/1975 | See Source »

...will, into a symbol of injustices for which he bears little, if any, personal responsibility and which may even be largely the figments of his assassins' imaginations? The Nada Gang, in short, had the potential for being Chabrol's great summing up. It is instead a botch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Plenty of Nada | 12/2/1974 | See Source »

...points' they suffer from syntactical confusion and 'a woolly, pretentious style.' " Macdonald's answer: "Were the Sermon woolly," that would be "my reaction, and I should be right, since in that case the Sermon would not be the great moral message it is but a botch, and not only in style...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Big Mac | 11/25/1974 | See Source »

...Dartmouth game, Steve Baumann scored two goals, while Larry Crum, Tom Botch and John Burke notched one each. Goalie Jim Miller recorded his ninth shutout of the year for the Quakers...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Penn Booters Win To Take Ivy Title | 11/27/1972 | See Source »

...seems that the Gambinos, at least, are certain who the killer was. Being perfectionists in the techniques of homicide, they are said to have convened their own court of inquiry into Gallo's death. They charged that the execution was a near-botch, an untidy, saloon-style shootout in which the gunman managed to kill Gallo only by sheer luck. The "defense" argued that because Gallo and his bodyguard were unexpectedly not facing the door, the assassin had to open fire before he was sure which of the two was Gallo. The Gambinos, in a rare display of leniency...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Blood in the Streets: Subculture of Violence | 4/24/1972 | See Source »

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