Word: disasterous
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Mutiny on the Bounty. MGM's $18.5 million reconstruction of The Bounty goes bounding along at a great rate for two hours, but all at once the story springs a leak and sinks beneath contempt. Marlon Brando is a sight too cute as Fletcher Christian, but even in disaster...
It was far from being the worst aviation disaster in U.S. history. But in a certain sense it was one of the most ironic-for among those killed was Captain Edward J. Bechtold, 43, a veteran Eastern pilot who was a recognized expert on air safety.
What anguishes middle-class Britain is the fate of eleven-plus "failures"-the 75% of eleven-year-olds who are sent to "secondary modern" schools set up by the 1944 act. Stripped of grammar-level minds, such schools are often semi-vocational institutions that cannot offer training for even the...
Commenting on the allegation that de Gaulle's solution to the Algerian problem was charged with deceit. Hoffmann said "it had certain elements of deceit in it, but what else is leadership? If trickery worked, more power to it. The alternative was disaster. What is surprising is not the solution...
Viewed from Peking, the difficulties of supply through the Himalayas in dead of winter might make the Communists hesitate to try to occupy Assam, especially since India's determined show of national unity, and the West's evident willingness to support India to the hilt. There is a...