Word: disasterous
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Disaster struck early for the Crimson, when, in the opening minutes of play, the Holy Cross defense recovered a fumble in Harvard territory. The Crusades wasted no time in posting their first score, as quarterback Mark Mowatt scampered to paydirt from 35 yards out.
Above all, the fact must be faced that as it stands, the National Guard is generally not fit for either side of its dual role. It is not properly constituted, equipped or trained to fight a modern war. It is even less prepared to deal with domestic riots. While some...
Collision Hazard. Building such a base on Aldabra would be an ecological disaster, said Britain's Royal Society of scientists in a memorandum to Defense Minister Denis Healey last May. Healey responded noncommittally, so the society mounted an eleven-man midsummer expedition to the island to prove its point...
Died. Admiral Claude C. Bloch, 89, one of the three ranking officers at Pearl Harbor during the Japanese attack; after a long illness; in Washington. At the time, Bloch was C.O. of the Hawaiian naval district, and such was his performance before the disaster that a board of inquiry specifically...
"They are not to lose it," wrote Faulkner about white men's memory of their own violence. "In whatever peaceful valleys, beside whatever places and reassuring streams of old age, in the mirroring faces of whatever children they will contemplate old disasters and newer hopes." Between disaster and hope...