Word: disasterous
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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In the minds of many, a prominent rift already exists between the rich, University-oriented parts of Cambridge and the rest of the City. If people felt that the University community was administering the poverty program, the result might be open hostility to the project--and disaster.
McCone's will be a tough act to follow. Taking over from Director Allen Dulles, whom President Kennedy dumped after the Bay of Pigs disaster, McCone has steadily and quietly rebuilt confidence in the CIA and its sensitive role. Under his direction, the agency's performance in alerting...
The forest went up in flames-precisely as U.S. planners had figured. Then came the sort of absurd disaster for which the Viet Nam war has become famous. The intense heat of the Boiloi boil caused the wet, tropical air overhead to condense into giant thunderclouds. The "thermal convective condition...
Anthony Eden's public life ended in the public disaster of Suez. Broken in health and spirit, he devoted his pasture years to that unbidden duty that commands so many retired statesmen. This is the third and last volume of the Eden memoirs, which altogether fill more than 2...
Speaking to a jampacked rally at Kalutara, south of the capital city of Colombo, greying, bespectacled Senanayake wore a green shirt (his party color) and gripped an elephant tusk (the elephant is his party emblem). He cried, "We must beat this government. If it continues, it will spell disaster for...