Word: disasterous
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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View from the Air. First Johnson bundled seven disaster-relief experts off to storm-battered Florida aboard a White House jet. Then, as damage reports from New Orleans worsened, he decided to head for the action. Louisiana Congressmen were called and told that they had half an hour to get...
Over the stricken city, the jet made a slow, 1,500-ft.-high pass so that its passengers could assess the full extent of the disaster. At the airport, the President spoke in drizzling rain to a welcoming committee led by Mayor Victor H. Schiro and Governor John McKeithen. Pledging...
Bullhorn Goodbye. At the airport later that night, the President announced through a bullhorn: "I have ordered the red tape cut. Our assistance will be given the highest priority." Then, after declaring Louisiana a disaster area, he headed back to the Potomac, got home at 12:24 a.m.
Smeared Dung. To the hundreds of millions of illiterate Indian and Pakistani peasants in the villages, the war may be just another disaster to add to the constant plagues of drought, flood, tornado and poverty. Not so in the cities. New Delhi crowds danced in the streets at the rumor...
Project officials reported seven confirmed dead and 83 missing, and they feared there would be no other survivors. Said one worker who had luckily escaped: "The poor devils never had a chance. Those not killed outright must have frozen to death in a matter of hours." At a news conference...