Word: disasterous
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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THE PROUD TOWER, by Barbara Tuchman. In The Guns of August, Historian Tuchman presented a perceptive and appalling analysis of the military catastrophe of 1914. In the present sequel, she steps back a few years and examines with equal sharpness a luxurious and unheeding Europe as it drifted toward disaster...
Monti is a bobber mostly by mischance. Skiing was his game until he ripped the ligaments in both knees practicing for the 1952 Olympics; he tried his hand briefly at auto racing (too expensive) before turning to bobsledding at the late age of 25. With speeds up to 70 m.p.h...
THE PROUD TOWER, by Barbara Tuchman. In The Guns of August Historian Tuchman presented a perceptive and appalling analysis of the military catastrophe of 1914. In this sequel, she steps back a few years and examines with equal sharpness a luxurious and unheeding Europe as it drifted toward disaster.
Among the many domestic stories he covered, old-TIMErs best remember his interview with a wayfarer on Chicago's Skid Row (July 22, 1946), his report on the Centralia mine disaster (April 7, 1947), and the two Alger Hiss trials.
To the casual observer, the heavy snow, gale winds and high tides that struck most of the Northeast last week seemed to have turned Rhode Island into a disaster area. Like homeless refugees, long lines of crying children clinging to their parents snaked through the gloom. But it was not...