Word: disasterous
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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The situation was said to be more serious than at any time since the Melilla disaster of 1921. Beni Hassan and Beni Said tribes combined in attacking the Spanish forces and were joined by numerous tribesmen from hitherto friendly groups. A column of Moorish auxiliaries and Foreign Legion troops under...
The place chosen for this celebration was the famed Houdinka Field, near Moscow, now used as an aerodrome, where in 1894, at the coronation of Tsar Nicholas II, thousands of people were accidentally trampled to death as they scrambled for free food and wine. A Bolshevik, glowing with pride, said...
The King also signed a decree granting amnesty to those sentenced on account of the Moroccan disaster of 1921, those convicted for political offenses and persons imprisoned for newspaper libel.
Taciturn captains prophesied wrecks and disaster. They called the change unnecessary, costly, illogical, insane? the work of professors and astronomers.
The cause of the disaster was not clear. The party were two weeks behind their schedule. The period of favorable weather was nearing its end. The time of violent monsoons was at hand. The North Col was encircled by ice cliffs that break off suddenly and plunge into the abyss...