Word: disasterously
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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In the end, Kennedy avoided disaster by giving way to most of LandrumGriffin's amendments to the Taft-Hartley Act. In effect Kennedy: ¶ Accepted the House's strong ban on secondary boycotts (barely mentioned in the Senate bill), including the Eisenhower-requested ban against picketing of innocent...
In public the magician is both mute and masked; it is only when he climbs into bed with his wife that he strips off his satanic guise and lets the audience in on his secret: he is really a good man with a perfectly normal voice, forced by poverty into...
Leaping from 1,000 transports, pouring from 500 crash-landed gliders, 34,000 U.S. and British airborne troops slammed at seven river and canal crossings between the Maas and the lower Rhine, starting Sunday, Sept. 17, 1944. In the biggest airborne attack of all time, Field Marshal Sir Bernard Montgomery...
Mainland China was having its own troubles with the elements. Peking reported that Honan province was suffering a cruel drought, while at the same time severe rains have flooded much of the Peking area in what the People's Daily calls "a disaster without precedent for some hundred years...
Few details came out through the totalitarian screen of secrecy, and it was hard to tell how much of Red China's agricultural troubles were political, how much natural. But obviously, the disaster reports were one way to prepare Red China's 650 million for food shortages this...