Word: disasterous
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While North Viet Nam is thus strong in men and motivation, it is weak in the critical area of modern weaponry. Giap's air force is still minuscule, though Soviet contributions of obsolescent aircraft (MIGs and medium-range IL-28 bombers) have doubled it in the past four months...
Business has been so bad at one of the bright new exhibits, the People-to-People Fiesta, that it had to close eleven of its 17 folk-art sales stalls and two-thirds of its open marketplace. Proprietors at the amusement section, which last year was a disaster area, have...
Exile & Consolation. With a passion equally ferocious, Dante hurled himself into politics. By 1300, thanks to his partisan zeal and forensic brilliance, he was one of the six principal executives of Florence; but in 1301 he met with a political disaster. The French marched on Florence and established Dante'...
Lyndon Said Go. The big bombers' target was "the O.K. Corral,"* a desolate 1-by-2-mi. patch of wilderness just 33 miles north of Saigon. There, according to intelligence reports, as many as four Viet Cong battalions were massing in the dense thicket near Bencat for another devastating...
First hint of disaster in the once tranquil Castellamare section came two months ago when the pavement started cracking up. Then the whole hillside started moving. Before it slowed down early this month, terra infirma was going west at the rate of 5 ft. an hour. The slide should have...