Word: disasterous
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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This conflict differs markedly from the earlier conflicts in being regarded by a great many Americans as an unnecessary one. I have always so regarded it myself. It will be even more disastrous for the Democratic Party. While it is the Republicans who are the most enthusiastic for this war...
Like all other potent medicines, the pills produce many incidental effects. Some are good, some bad. Largely because of the thalidomide disaster, which occurred soon after the pills went on the market, many women are leary of them. Says a 31-year-old Houston woman who has only two children...
Despite the steady increase of Negro students at the nation's major universities, the U.S. still has more than 120 colleges that have a predominantly Negro student population. How good are they? In the current issue of the Harvard Educational Review, Sociologist David Riesman and Christopher Jencks, a contributing...
A wiry, tight-lipped overseer with sparse grey hair and rimless trifocals, McDonnell scoffs at the "one-man myth" about his company. But if his employees are "teammates," he is the coach, and he calls every important play. He is in the middle of every scrimmage. McDonnell refers to himself...
"He had been the one member of the subcabinet who had foreseen disaster in the jail basement," Manchester said, in an article describing his struggle to write and publish The Death of a President, his controversial history of the assassination.