Word: disasterous
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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"Over & Over." As the hundreds upon hundreds of rescue workers fought their way courageously through the smoking disaster, others were converging on Staten Island's tiny Miller Field, an Army helicopter and small-plane airport. The TWA Constellation had fallen on the edge of the field, a slim 150...
In West Germany, a day after the New York disaster, a U.S. Air Force Convair, carrying 13 holiday-bound University of Maryland students and a crew of seven, crashed in downtown Munich shortly after takeoff, heeled sharply into a two-section trolley car jammed with Christmas shoppers, and exploded into...
Getting Their Kicks. For the defeated Americans, Sirola's totally unexpected victory was the culminating disaster of a disastrous trip. For weeks, the ill-mannered U.S. youngsters had been stirring up one of the biggest flaps in Australian tennis history by berating officials, swearing on court, hitting balls into...
After a three-month search in the Hi malayas for the Abominable Snowman, New Zealand's famed Mountaineer Sir Edmund HiHary descended into Nepal with only one furry shred of evidence that the Snowman has any more substance than Santa Claus. Sir Edmund's trophy: a scalp that...
The rain may never fall till after sundown, By eight the morning fog must disappear. And again, much later, as royalty asking What Do Simple Folk Do?-and whistling, singing, dancing by way of answer-they are appealingly gay. But too often Camelot's gaiety grows flip or desperate...