Word: disasterous
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Sir: I think TIME somewhat mistook the emphasis of C. P. Snow's Westminster College speech. Snow's prediction of disaster was not premised upon a future failure of resources, nor upon blunders yet unmade -but on the continuation of present trends that show no sign of changing...
In the wake of the Consol 9 disaster, Representative Ken Hechler of Huntington, W. Va., had the necessary courage. Said he: "Coal miners don't have to die. In a civilized society, it is nothing short of criminal to allow present conditions to continue in the coal mines.
Before the day was over, 21 men had made it to the frozen surface; but 78 others still remained trapped, some as much as 600 ft. below the ground. As hope diminished for their rescue, the disaster looked to be the worst mining accident in the U.S. since 119 men...
Yes, so far, always. Doubtless the Italians will also escape from the present cliffhanger. They are bound to come up on the other side of disaster with a patchwork government that will last until the next one, pointing again to their great miracolo, the economic miracle that the nation'...
Far more than a celebration of unfettered instinct, Zorba's heightened sense of existence comes from his sec-ond-to-second awareness of death. That is why the widow is murdered by the puritanical villagers, and why the apparatus that operates the lignite mine crashes in total disaster. Such...