Word: disasterous
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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We've only hit a millennium once before, and the records from that one don't specify much about the event. We really don't know what'll happen when the end of December rolls around. That's the whole idea behind the Y2K bug hype. The possibilities for disaster...
Having just narrowly averted disaster, the Crimson seemed to come alive after Toups' near-miss, as it began to apply the pressure that would lead to the game-winner.
Webster Groves has made a conscious decision to try to control the weather. The school would much rather prevent a disaster than clean up after one--which means that a child who so much as murmurs a threat toward himself or a teacher or another student is immediately under the...
"It's a kind of American verismo," Bolcom says of View, using the Italian term for such popular slice-of-life operas as Puccini's La Boheme and Leoncavallo's Pagliacci. Sure enough, the tale of Eddie Carbone (baritone Kim Josephson), a middle-aged longshoreman who lusts after his young...
Reading your report on China's 50th anniversary [WORLD, Oct. 4], one would think Maoist China was a disaster. But when I visited the People's Republic in 1971, I saw something different. Peasants and workers were transforming their lives. China was looked to admiringly by people worldwide. What a...