Word: disasterous
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Some 18 miles east of Seoul, the C-119 crashed against a 2,000-ft. peak. There were no survivors; the Air Force called it the "worst transport disaster" of the Korean war.* In the litter of mangled flesh and metal, search parties found some of the presents-satin slippers...
For example, Chile's new president made campaign promises to cancel Chile's Mutual Security Treaty, renew diplomatic relations with Russia, and allow the country's Reds to come out of hiding. The Bolivian government, which kicked American investors out of the tin industry, told the people that American refusal...
Somehow, Washington kept patience and hope. His capacity for self-control was enormous: when the news of Benedict Arnold's treason reached him, he sent his aide, Colonel Alexander Hamilton, 24, riding off to intercept the traitor, calmly ate dinner, did his best to comfort Arnold's hysterical...
He had hoped, said Byrd, that Stevenson "would give assurance that, if elected, he would change the course of Trumanism, a continuation of which . . . means ultimate disaster ... I have looked in vain for any signs of such independent action." Point by point, Byrd ripped into Trumanism, which he called the...
Depression. Almost all his major speeches included sketches of the horrors of the Great Depression. "Conservative, law-abiding farmers organized to march on towns and to loot the stores. Children left home to spare their parents another mouth to feed . . . Millions of American men & women waited in the breadlines ..." The...