Word: disasterously
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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In the long memory of man, the fly-by-night, leather-winged bat has seldom been anything but a creature of ill repute-a companion of witches and devils and a portent of disaster. Though naturalists like to argue that bats are humanity's benefactors because they gobble vast...
Boston's John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance Co. last week put the finishing touches to an elaborate self-insurance program that may well become the model for other big firms in the U.S. The project: a company civil defense program aimed at sheltering and protecting its 6,000 home...
For all the five years that he was president of the hapless New Haven Railroad, Boston Attorney George Alpert moved up and down the land preaching that only Government subsidies could save the nation's railroad passenger operations from extinction. The Interstate Commerce Commission, historically opposed to rail subsidies...
For Japan, which like Britain must live on its foreign trade, increasing imports and decreasing exports ultimately spell economic disaster. Last week came news that the nation's foreign-exchange reserves had dropped more than $100 million in August alone, will have shrunk from $2 billion to $1.4 billion...
The paradox that has fascinated all historians-of reason beside unreason, of rationalism beside blind faith-was never more sharply apparent than in the century (1558-1648) from Elizabeth to Richelieu and from Shakespeare to Descartes. It was a time when superstition was rampant; a king's touch would...