Word: disasterous
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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IF journalists are not as cynical as ' they are often given blame - or credit - for being, they are nonetheless among the least surprised and most prepared of people for the possibilities of both disaster and triumph in human affairs. That, after all, is their business. As TIME'S...
That disaster virtually brought the Apollo program to a halt and threw NASA into chaos. What was needed was a man who could restore order within the program, and Low was the choice. In April 1967, while preparing for takeoff from Washington National Airport in a small NASA Gulfstream turboprop...
Despite its vital importance, the SPS engine was the only major system aboard the spacecraft designed without another complete system to back it. Like other systems, the engine had duplicate parts made to take over if its tanks, valves or propellant lines failed. But space and weight limitations had forced...
With millions of Americans already victimized by the epidemic, the American Red Cross declared a "disaster situation." Federal health authorities, warning that the worst is yet to come, predicted that the peak should be reached around New Year's Day or mid-January. Before the virus has run its...
Baldwin was desperately optimistic. He could imagine only two possible outcomes to the apocalypse--a fragile birth of brotherhood, or disaster, the Fire. Surely, white men and black men would feel compelled to choose the first alternative.