Word: disasterously
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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For that is what the liberal movement is courting--disaster, both for itself and for the nation. (Which is more important? one wonders.) To insist that there is no difference between Kennedy and Nixon is not only suicidal: it is to obscure the difference between life and death. When has...
Panicky Word. For most of last week, the three pretenders stayed close to home, surrounded by hedgerows of Congolese and U.N. troops. Each seemed to feel that venturing into the streets was inviting death or disaster. Because none of the rival heads of government would act, nothing got done. Congolese...
Professional airmen have long feared the way-up phenomenon of clear air turbulence-called CAT. But not until recent months, with at least one airline disaster attributable to CAT (TIME, April 11), has awareness of the danger struck home to the high-flying U.S. public. The worst thing about CAT...
Willingness and ability to destroy other populations do not provide security. Limited conflicts may grow uncontrollably. Temporary shifts in military power may motivate a country to initiate a preventive war. In situations of tension, failures of men and equipment can lead to disaster. Other countries, in their local feuds, may...
Such a failure was no mere disaster: it had to be a crime. Last week, after eleven months in prison, Engineer Manfred Gerlach was brought into a Dresden court and charged with sabotaging development of the 66-152's engines by issuing "false instructions." He had been working for...