Word: disasterous
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Barry Goldwater may have been an unrelieved disaster for the National Republican Party, but he put the Mississippi G.O.P. back in business for the first time since Reconstruction. He won an astonishing 87% of the state's vote; at the same time, the only Republican who ran for Congress...
Skidmore, a specialist in the history of Latin America, said yesterday that he hoped to ask Bundy "why the government has apparently shifted its support away from the Bosch-type, liberal government in Latin America." He said he was critical of American policy in the Dominican Republic although "I would...
In the fall of 1938, when the Class returned for its junior year, Cambridge was a shambles. A hurricane had cost the University $100,000 in damage and had flattened nine elms outside Eliot House on Memorial Drive. The football team was less of a disaster: It took Big Three...
Presidential elections are not scheduled until October 1966, but Lacerda is already running, and he has found his best ammunition in the government's tough but necessary campaign against inflation. Before the revolution, Brazil was headed for economic disaster with a soaring inflation approaching 100% a year. By tightening...
A disaster, for one thing: A. J. Foyt, Rodger Ward and Parnelli Jones crashed in practice, and if the three top Indy veterans couldn't control their cars, what could be expected from the eleven green rookies in the race? There was the Great Tire War between Firestone and...