Word: disasterous
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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A road trip, generally unpleasant in any sport, meant disaster for the Harvard squash team this weekend.
An inept administrator, a corrosive buttinsky on the set, a compulsive chiseler and a helpless planner, Levy was ripe for disaster when he announced his grand oeuvre in 1961: a version of Marco Polo budgeted at $4,000,000, mostly imaginary. He rented 200 elephants in Nepal, allowing 71 to...
Anyone who watched television during the past year must have seen a pretty but slightly misty-looking 5-ft. 4-in. blonde tumble out of a highflying airplane, crash a speedboat onto a beach at full throttle, ride a wagon hauled by galloping horses, plunge through an opening drawbridge, fall...
The slowdown's most disturbing effect is rising unemployment. Even though the jobless rate is low by U.S. standards, the number of unemployed has jumped from 120,000 to 330,000 over the past year, may rise to 600,000 by spring. "A disaster has not happened yet," says...
Though they could scarcely believe that the Fed would let any such disaster occur, bankers could not be certain. To raise money, they sold off billions of dollars in municipal bonds from their portfolios at great loss. Bond prices crashed and bond yields soared. A year before, long-term municipal...