Word: disasterous
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Sarnoff got his first operator's job on Nantucket Island, a job so lonely that few operators wanted it ($70 a month, $40 home to mother). David used his spare time to study books on wireless as tirelessly as he had the Talmud. Soon his expert "fist" could send...
PEKING calls it a Chinese victory. To many westerners here, it looks as if the U.S. is rescuing Red China from the brink of disaster-and in such a way that the Reds are able to present the armistice negotiations to their own people and to much of Asia as...
Silent Service. No one knows better than U.S. submariners themselves how deadly a sub can be. In 1941, when the proud surface Navy suffered the disaster of Pearl Harbor, a handful of nerveless men had pointed the sharp prows of so-odd U.S. subs toward Japan and written a record...
This year the cycle of disaster threatened the birds again. The sea grew warm and fish scarce. Streams of hungry birds ribboned down the coast. But this time they found sanctuary: "artificial islands" that the good Guano Co. had made for them by building walls across promontories. The birds can...
The story's Wilder-style "hero" is an unscrupulous reporter (Kirk Douglas) who has been broken from big-city dailies to a job covering the humdrum local news of Albuquerque. Hungering for a break that will send him back to the big time, he stumbles on a disaster reminiscent...