Word: disasterous
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Stunned beyond belief, shaken beyond admission, still unable to comprehend the disaster, the Arab world last week lurched violently between collapse and retribution. It could no longer make war, but refused to make peace. It had lost its armies, but was desperately determined not to lose its face. Instead, it...
"Attack, Attack & Attack." Defeat did not bring disaster to Arab political leaders. The Israeli attack on Syria seemed to have saved, for the time being at least, the wild-eyed Baathist regime of President Noureddin Attassi. Jordan's King Hussein, whose outgunned troops fought the Israelis for every inch...
Zorba the Greek was a splendid hero, but when he tried his hand at lignite mining he was a disaster. That's the way economic things go in Greece, a country that has an annual per-capita G.N.P. of only $530 and ranks as one of Europe's...
Jewels & Diaries. As Hitler's armies first spill across the Continent, Nicolson despairs for Britain, certain that the war cannot be won. Opposed to Chamberlain's appeasement, he describes one of the Prime Minister's speeches during which "Winston Churchill sat hunched beside him looking like the...
Assuming that such a disaster was nearly upon them, the M.I.T. students organized themselves into seven specialized groups to study the trajectories necessary to intercept Icarus, the space hardware and communications equipment that was available or could be quickly produced, and the effects of nuclear explosions. They consulted with leading...