Word: disasterously
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Of all causes for general Republican disaster, none was more sharply pinpointed by pundits and editorial writers (see JUDGMENTS & PROPHECIES) than presidential leadership. At a strictly political level, President Eisenhower showed little interest in his party. Last week even loyal Eisenhower-Republican Senator Cliff Case of New Jersey was moved...
At 3 p.m. last Thursday 174 men hung their brass identity disks in the lamphouse of Cumberland No. 2 colliery and went below the quiet, tree-shaded streets of Springhill, Nova Scotia (pop. 7,000) into the deepest mine in North America. Before the shift ended, more than half were...
Off-year elections traditionally lack focus. The decisions of the voters are normally made on state and local issues and consequently embody no national mandate. This year, however, the Republican Party has supplied a focus: attempting to equate Democrats with radicalism and socialism, it has condemned its opponents in Cassandrian...
But Joe Alsop is not happy. He is incorrigibly gloomy, an inveterate prophet of perdition, forever firing literate messages of despair at what he deems to be a complacent multitude of 35 million readers. His columns bong with death-knell words and phrases: "hair-raising," "chaos," "crisis," "the slippery brink...
An undisclosed number of crew members also died in the disaster. There were no survivors.