Word: disasterous
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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To nearly two generations of Broadway producers at more than 10,000 first nights, no onstage exits were as important as the abrupt, deadpan departures of Critic George Jean Nathan from his aisle seat. If that departure came (as it did all too often) at the end of the second...
Near week's end President Eisenhower, surveying storm's results-twelve deaths, 5,000 people doused out of their homes, flash-estimate damage of $12 million to $100 million-declared California a federal disaster area.
In the long roll of wrack at sea, the burning of the Skaubryn will be remembered as a disaster where men triumphed, and not the elements. The master of City of Sydney sent a radio message of farewell to Skaubryn's Captain Alf Faeste and his crew: "Your feat...
Pajarito's defeat was a national disaster to a loud army of Mexicans who had been stampeding northward for days. They had jammed up at border stations, scrapped for space on airlines. So many of them swarmed into the stadium that when the band struck up The Star-Spangled...
A nationwide test, to be given when children enter high school and again before they graduate-checking local scholarship with the national average-is favored by 59% of the principals. The reason most principals give: the test would help awaken parents in educational disaster areas, gain support for raising academic...