Word: disasterous
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Hanging on to a precarious 10-3 lead, the Yardlings entered the inning with Paul Thornton on the mound. In the nightmare that followed the Huskie freshmen scored six runs on one hit, six walks, three wild pitches, and two crucial errors. Harvard could not recover from the disaster in...
Up from Cat. His father and mother were tomato farmers on Cat Island in the Bahamas. Once or twice a year, they went to Florida in a small sailboat to sell their tomatoes, and on one of these trips their eighth child, Sidney, was born, thus becoming an American citizen...
Last week the threatened city was a scene of worried preparation. At a cost of $10 million, Volcano Minister Dengo is diverting the course of the Reventado River as it nears Cartago. The upper bed of the river is being cleaned out to reduce the amount of ash that a...
Adorable Julia is a smooth and zesty little romantic comedy built on what seem like blueprints for a flop. To make a film of Somerset Maugham's 1937 novel Theatre was to risk anachronism, and to make it in French ought to have guaranteed disaster. What could be done...
A mistress called Prudence Brandowitz once confided to his hairy armpit a distaste for "Southern vulgarity." The effects upon him were startling. "My heart knobbed up and started a wild swing," Brad reminisces. "It was as though all those hairy flea-bit, iron-rumped and narrow-assed, whooping and caterwauling...