Word: disasterously
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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WHAT makes news can be either events that are fortuitous or those that are foreseeable. Each week there is a lively competition for our space between the news we can prepare for (the museum opening, whose exhibits we can photograph in advance in color, for example) and the disaster that...
This proposal might appear too rigid, except that it holds less prospect for disaster than the present policy. Until the last few weeks, support for the Diem government remained dangerously open-ended. United States personnel in South Vietnam could always plead for just a little more time to corral the...
NBC-TV covering a society ball? "Oh, I think it is a wonderful idea," gushed Rose Kennedy. And the 1,200 guests ($150 a head) at Manhattan's April in Paris Ball politely went along with it. But it wasn't wonderful at all. It was a disaster...
This difference reflects a larger discrepancy between the two versions. To show his state of congenital wretchedness, Voltaire makes Candide a bastard; Carbonnaux makes him an Alsatian. The countries Voltaire mentions only symbolize universal evils hike treachery and regicide. Carbonnaux specifically attacks Germany, Russia, Farouk, Argintina and imperialists. Voltaire describes...
Lord Home's crest shows a salamander standing in fire. To his friends, it symbolizes his patient, outwardly phlegmatic disposition, not easily touched by the heat of emotion, danger or disaster. As the grim-faced stream of ministers came and went through the black door of No. 10 Downing...