Word: disasterous
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Punitive Punch. For the first time, Washington then ordered armed jet fighters to escort the recons, but disaster nearly repeated itself. Again over Ban Ban, a Navy F-8A Crusader escort, flown by Commander Doyle W. Lynn, 37, of La Mesa, Calif., was shot down by the Reds. Lynn likewise...
THE TWENTIETH CENTURY (CBS, 6-6:30 p.m.). The 1942 fall of Singapore, called by Winston Churchill "the worst disaster and largest capitulation in British history."
Langer's rigorous standards of scholarship for undergraduates made History 132 and History 157 (The Ottoman Empire) the ultimate test for serious history concentrators and the ultimate disaster for the liberal arts dilettante.
Whatever else it is-a proving ground for automobiles, a nostalgic bit of Americana-the Indianapolis 500 is mainly a dice with disaster. Drivers come and go, cars change, engines get bigger. The one constant is danger. In 54 years of Memorial Day racing at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, 56...
There is no rational reason why the Mets should ever score 19 runs in a game. But maybe they were rereading those grand old boys' books, Baseball Joe and Double Curve Dan. The team is in a losing streak-disaster after disaster. Then, all of a sudden, comes that...