Word: disasterously
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Liberals are reacting to Governor Wallace's coup in Wisconsin with an optimism bordering on the quixotic. James Farmer of CORE disposed of the Wisconsin returns with the rather obvious if not reassuring, observation that "there are many prejudiced people in the North as well as in the South." President...
Such macabre humor was the exception in the wake of Alaska's Good Friday earthquake. More than 125 were dead or missing in the disaster, most of them in Alaska, the rest as a result of seismic sea waves that hit Oregon and California. The cost in property damage...
Snapped. All through the night, bands of rescuers worked by flickering flashlight, rummaging through the rubble to find the lost, the injured and the dead. Air Force disaster units flew into Alaska with doctors, nurses, medical equipment and emergency hospital units.
When the fire was finally quenched-40 hours after it began-the flames had burned more than 11,500 acres, destroyed and damaged 30 homes and caused total losses estimated at more than $5,000,000. That fire would be recorded in the disaster logbook alongside the 1961 Bel Air...
Like people who live near the mouth of a volcano, the citizens in the hills of Los Angeles County know that there is no end to disaster. Eventually the rainy season will drench the denuded hills with flash floods. Then the mesquite and chaparral will grow back on the hillsides...