Word: not-so-good
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When British Yachtsmen Alan Warren and David Hunt limped across the finish line 14th in a field of 16 Tempest-class sailboats, they looked their not-so-good ship Gift 'Orse in the hull, set the fiber-glass beast afire and sank it in Lake Ontario. The 22-ft. sailboat (worth $10,000 new) had been damaged during shipment to Montreal and had served Britannia poorly. Said disgusted Skipper Warren: "She was lame: kindness called for us to put her down." The task proved almost Olympian. Paint thinner sloshed on the decks to fuel the blaze evaporated before Crewman...
...other side of the ledger, there were some not-so-good aspects to the press's performance on Carter. The Village Voice's Alexander Cockburn developed a monomania for blasting Carter as a "reactionary," which is all very fine, but misrepresented his positions on the death penalty, aid to New York City and right-to-work laws, which is not. Cockburn's penchant for hyperbole is particularly regrettable since his more general case, that Carter is slick and exhibits rightist tendencies, is a convincing one. The real hatchet job, though, appeared in Harper's last week. One of the feistier...
...pitied or exploited or scorned." Each Middle American wants to be judged on his own merits, as an officer of the law complained with great clarity: "Why does everyone say the police? There are thousands and thousands of policemen, and they're individuals?good and bad and not-so-good...
...band, my buttons, or the fact that because of people like me they were standing out there in the cold morning drizzle directing traffic. They smiled back and said "hi" back. And the marshals, freezing all along the route, were good people. Almost all the people were good ones, not rotten apples. But there were lots of not-so-good people sleeping, "ignoring" this childish demonstration...
...band, my buttons, or the fact that because of people like me they were standing out there in the cold morning drizzle directing traffic. They smiled back and said "hi" back. And the marshals, freezing all along the route, were good people. Almost all the people were good ones, not rotten apples. But there were lots of not-so-good people sleeping, "ignoring" this childish demonstration...