Word: disasterous
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Hurricane Alice, first of the 1954 season, was gentle as hurricanes go. She barely reached hurricane velocity (80 m.p.h.), and the blow did little damage other than beaching a few shrimp boats in the Gulf of Mexico. But when she moved inland over parched southwest Texas, her humid clouds cascaded...
River of Mud. At midnight, 19 hours after the Ozona disaster, the Rio Grande crested some 150 miles away at the trans-river cities of Eagle Pass and Piedras Negras. Forewarned, the Texans of Eagle Pass had moved out to watch in safety as their homes were flooded. Across the...
In other words, France could no longer maintain the fiction that she was one of the world's Big Five, a fiction nurtured by De Gaulle and his successors, affirmed again and again by Winston Churchill, Franklin Roosevelt and Dwight Eisenhower, made statutory in the permanent seats of the...
The Red Cross national chairman, E. Roland Harriman of Groton, Yale ('17) and Brown Brothers, is a selfless charitarian of long standing, but he is not noted for diplomacy. He was in a particularly undiplomatic mood last week when he arose at Los Angeles to address the 1954 convention...
Mike Gorman, editor of the Flint Journal, snapped that Harriman had smeared Flint and the civic leaders who directed the local fund drive. Gorman attributed to Harriman a motive that might broaden the controversy. Said he: "Despicably, Mr. Harriman has used this disaster . . .