Word: disasterous
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Pity & Terror. Another Hollywood character, the late Spencer Tracy, once said that "Garland audiences don't just listen?they feel." They also fear?and in some cases hope?that they may be witnesses to a breakdown, which is one of the compelling attractions exerted by this durable but disaster-prone...
Blaming serious tactical blunders and "fiendish" weather for what he calls U.S. mountaineering's worst disaster, Expert Alpinist Bradford Washburn added: "It's amazing more people haven't been killed on McKinley when you consider 400 are killed in the Alps every summer."
You-are-there books are not present tense journalism or final history, but they are a demanding kind of literary specialty, and can be absorbing reading. Specific detail is summoned to flesh out the skeletal facts of history, the jumbled sequence of action is put in order. Walter Lord has...
The temptation, of course, is to avoid the decision. Riots, people say, are the result of revolting conditions-- they are the price for 200 years of white supremacy. Riots, the argument continues, will knit Negro communities together and will make Black men realize the depth of the struggle they must...
Obviously, the American mouth is a disaster area. Dentists are quick to blame public indifference, and with some reason. If Americans used toothbrushes and gum stimulators properly, dental diseases could be sharply reduced. But as Tufts University's Dr. Irving Glickman told the Fourth Annual Workshop on Preventive Dentistry...