Word: disasterous
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Three more sticks would qualify him for the record, and the way he was booting the ball left no doubt, that he would reach Dick Clasby's mark of 41.0 yards per punt. But disaster struck again. In practice before the Brown game, MacIntyre sustained a sprained ankle that ended...
The gangs are formed, and what Freud called the "narcissism of small differences" begins to operate. "Turfs" or gang territories are established. "Points of honor" become the meaning in life. And so, into insults--the formal insult, say, of invading rival "turf"--is poured all the accumulated frustration endemic in...
¶ Peking's People's Dally dolefully informed readers that in 1960 half of China's cropland had been visited by drought, floods, hordes of insects or other natural disaster. While Russia, with bumper crops in the Ukraine and northern Caucasus to compensate for Kazakhstan's...
Resurgence After Disaster. Both Northern and Southern Baptists share the basic Baptist tenets: the supreme authority of Scripture, baptism by immersion, the autonomy of the individual soul before God. The split between them began with the issue of slavery; the Southern Baptist Conference was founded in 1845, after a Northern...
The Confederacy's defeat and its aftermath brought near disaster to Southern Baptists: some of their meeting houses were confiscated, Northern Baptists flooded the South with their publications, and preachers were kept from their pulpits unless they swore that they had not sympathized with the Confederacy.