Word: disasterous
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Lyndon Johnson, who had visited the stricken area hours after the hurricane swept through, poured in millions of dollars worth of federal aid to ease Louisiana back to normalcy. Property damage in the delta would total at least $1 billion, and shipping losses, including 700 vessels sunk or grounded, would...
To the alarm of dedicated aficionados, El Cordobés' success has encouraged a group of imitators who threaten to transform bullfighting from a dramatic and highly emotional art into a crazy circus act. His imitators are even worse than he is. Significantly, one of them calls himself "The...
On the Lake. The final disaster came this month, when three drunken Simbas began brawling in Cairo's residential Zamalek district. Before the battle ended, two of them had been shot dead. The surviving Simba resisted arrest on the grounds that "I am a general." That was too much...
Last week Lawyer Joseph, 35, proudly announced that the offer is "likely to be accepted," noted that "this is the first time an effort has been made to settle disaster claims en masse by reviewing the damages and having the defendant put up an amount to cover them." As for...
Two Disasters. After a decline in therapeutic abortions for almost two decades, thanks to medical progress, two disasters spurred the current increase. First was the thalidomide tragedy, which left some 10,000 European babies deformed or crippled, and in the U.S. led to the publicized case of Sherry Finkbine, who...