Word: disasterously
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Suspicion immediately focused on Ghana's Strongman Kwame Nkrumah, who has conducted a bitter feud with Olympio over control of the powerful, 700,000-member Ewe (pronounced Evvy) tribe, which was split between both countries by European boundary-setters. Twice before, assassins had tried to kill Olympio; each time...
The Wall Street Journal returned to the firing line: "Perhaps the real meaning of the President's budget is that its enormous figures are all but meaningless. The figures might as well be picked out of the air, and in large measure they have been." Even the Washington Post...
The prophets saw these incidents as symptoms; the disease was the corrupt state of Israel. Their cure was angry eloquence. "To us," Heschel writes, "a single act of injustice-cheating in business, exploitation of the poor-is slight; to the prophets, a disaster. To us injustice is injurious to the...
The International Typographical Union's strike against four New York daily newspapers and the publishers' lockout at the other three is a disaster. The effects of the information blackout, now in its forty-seventh day, have been enormously destructive to the city's social political and economic life. As for...
By the time the party set out for the National Gallery, more than 1,000 other guests had been jammed, black-tied and begowned, into the West Sculpture Hall. There the painting, encased in bulletproof glass, hung waiting for the official introduction. Most people couldn't see a thing...