Word: disasterous
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Cronin first became familiar with disaster work during the hurricane of 1938 which caused wide-spread damage to the New England coast. At the time, he headed a disaster relief committee which worked to restore communications and transportation.
Such a leading role might be the despair of a skilled actress; for Lana Turner, it is a disaster. Looking less svelte than chunky, she fails even to make the heroine attractive. Milland is a portrait of acute discomfort, and such able players as Tom Ewell and Louis Calhern squeak...
When he entered the Naval Academy he was 16, and younger than most of his classmates. His grades, mediocre at first, got better every year. The 1916 Lucky Bag (Academy yearbook) said: "Raddy came to us as a child-a pink-cheeked Apollo; since then he has been fooling people...
Most of the people came out of the water a purplish-blue from cold. Their teeth chattered uncontrollably and they clutched the nearest object with unreasoning desperation after being hauled to safety. Occasionally their rescuers pulled aboard a corpse. The living gradually told a disjointed tale of disaster. The gleaming...
¶The official Communist New China News Agency last week railed against extensive sabotage, bribery, wastefulness and negligence, causing millions of dollars damage to the Red economy during the past year. In Manchuria alone 303 mine accidents occurred; one disaster killed 174 miners because of Stakhanovite competition that neglected safety...