Word: disasterously
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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As the reverberations of the summit collapse began to fade last week, the nation could count some net gains from what had at first seemed to many to be if not a disaster, at least a calamity. Khrushchev's ranting belligerence had rallied the Western nations closer together, and...
But it was still an election year. Missouri's Democratic Presidential Hopeful Stuart Symington charged that the President had subjected the country to a "humiliating disaster" at the summit. Adlai Stevenson declared that Ike's "bland" explanations in his televised speech were unsatisfactory. And Jack Kennedy insisted that...
As Chile cracked and heaved last week under the force of its fifth major earthquake in two days, a six-year-old boy in Puerto Montt snatched up his baby brothers, tucked one under each arm and tried to run. Walls twisted and split above him. The earth beneath rocked...
Beneath the dust cloud that shrouded the ruins, an estimated 500 to 700 were dead; 7,000 were homeless. News of other hundreds dead trickled in from villages in the surrounding mountains. Over the course of five days, successive quakes trapped and killed rescue workers trying to dig out survivors...
Died. Lieut. General Sir Horace Clement Hugh Robertson, 65, Australian combat veteran of both world wars; after a heart operation; in Melbourne. As British Commonwealth occupation commander in Japan from 1946 to 1951, Robertson upset American plans for a quiet observance of the third anniversary of the atomic destruction of...