Word: disasterously
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Eli team captain Weigel, who cut through the Harvard line for huge hunks of yardage all afternoon, brought the ball to the 30. Doherty overthrew two passes in the end zone, but on third down he turned what looked like a disaster into near triumph for the Elis. Trapped deep...
Japan's disaster toll last week stood at 450 in the Kyushu mine explosion, and 162 in the three-train wreck near Yokohama. As far as anyone could determine, both tragedies resulted from faulty cotter pins, only an inch or two long.
Bernard survives, however. He even lies to save her, and as Thérèse rides home from court to try to tell him why she did it, her unhappy history is reviewed in flashbacks. Here, the prose narrative becomes a burdensome, bookish device, but Director Georges Franju finds...
Because of the unusually great importance of sustaining the atmosphere, the few technical difficulties became especially annoying. The new lighting system flickered several times; an easily understood minor disorder in the typical House production becomes a minor disaster in a Pinter play.
A Bottle of Whisky. Diem's disaster struck on All Saints' Day. For the taciturn little President, the day had begun with normal business in the sprawling, cream-colored Gia Long palace; one visitor was Admiral Harry Felt, commander of U.S. forces in the Far East, who had...