Word: disasterous
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Sunday was a different day in many ways for Harvard. With Irving on the mound, Harvard led 4-2 going into the bottom of the fifth. But then disaster struck, as Bear A. Ran Malick popped a three-run homer that gave Brown a lead it would never relinquish.
After 241 American troops on a pointless mission in Beirut were killed by a suicide bomber in 1983, the Reagan Administration struggled to draw lessons from the disaster. The next year, Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger offered a checklist for evaluating the future uses of military forces abroad. Such actions should...
In Saigon the CIA had already begun "black" (secret) flights, spiriting out of the country Vietnamese collaborators who could expect only prison or death after a communist victory, and the U.S. embassy had begun burning its files. (Not fast enough: long lists containing the names of Vietnamese and specifying what...
FOR THE PAST 12 YEARS, ON THE SIDEWALK next to my company's Tokyo headquarters, an elderly gentleman, Harukichi Watanabe, ran a small shoe-repair stand. Secretaries as well as corporate executives would leave their shoes each day for repair. After the poison-gas attack, I noticed on my arrival...
TIME correspondent Edward Barnes reports that the two suspects thought to have rented the truck used in the bombing used a fake South Dakota drivers' license with a birthdate of April 19, 1979 -- the same day as the Branch Davidian disaster in Waco, Tx., as well as the Oklahoma City...