Word: disasterous
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Bliss has been no ordinary National Committee chief. He already had a na tional reputation for rebuilding the party in Ohio when leaders, including Nixon, called him to Washington after the 1964 Goldwater disaster. Bliss's talent for organization and avoidance of the ideo logical disputes that had fragmented...
In '68 Atlantic played its Super Star for all she was worth and Aretha brought home some heavy income. She also did some of the best songs done in '68 or any other year, "The House That Jack Built" and "Say A Little Prayer." Aretha is honest, she sings it...
Wherever it shifted, the oil brought ecological disaster to bird and sea life. At Santa Barbara's three treatment centers, 1,400 sea-diving birds had been brought in. Only a third survived. Other shoreline birds, such as curlews, plovers and willets, which feed on sand creatures, had fled...
Santa Barbara disaster. Nixon also told the panel "to produce far more stringent and effective regulations" so that "crises of this kind will not recur."
THERE WERE some people inconvenienced recently by the Administrative Board. The Ad Board disallowed their petitions for make-up exams. For some (including the author), the Board's decision was merely an inconvenience. For others, the decision probably constitutes a major academic disaster.