Word: badness
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...Telephone. Happy was at dinner in St. Petersburg when he got the bad news: the club owners, splitting 8-8, had failed to re-elect him. Happy charged to a telephone and demanded another ballot, but when it was taken he still stood three votes short of reelection...
...Florida State Racing Commission (TIME, Dec. 18), the National Association of Racing Commissioners raised an outraged bellow. Last week, Jockey Meade himself got the Florida commission off the spot. In a tearful statement ("I had no idea all the trouble it would cause . . . I'm brokenhearted"), Bad Boy Meade withdrew his application for a Florida license...
That word was barely out when NPA had more bad news. To free more rubber for the stockpile, it ordered manufacturers to cut their use of natural rubber by 11% in January and 22% in February. The new orders would probably cut into supplies of tires and other civilian rubber products. But by June, when synthetic output is expected to reach 64,000 tons a month (v. 45,000 tons now), NPA hopes that the controls can be eased...
While Scotland Yard, aided by the professor's daughter and his young colleague, directs a nip & tuck hunt for the man and his bomb, the cabinet secretly orders the machinery of evacuation oiled up. Rumor gives the public a bad case of war jitters. Then, crowded by the professor's deadline, the Prime Minister shares the secret with the people in a tense radio talk. Troops and civil defense workers take over the city; packing only what belongings they can carry by hand, London's millions queue up resolutely to roll out in all directions...
...only direct the dirty work, you never do it yourself. The principle is this: every government, even that of the United States, lies always and about everything; when it can't lie on the main issue, it lies about the details. There are good lies and bad. Good ones are those that the [middle class] believes; excellent ones catch some of the carriage public; execrable ones are those nobody believes, and that only the most shameless ministries dare repeat. Everybody knows this. It is one of the first maxims of state, and must never escape your memory-or your...