Word: disasterously
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Mourning Day. Afraid of civil war and preparing for a showdown, the government canceled all leaves for the 20,000 members of the South African police, placed the members of auxiliary white defense forces on a stand-by alert. Indoor or outdoor meetings of more than twelve persons were declared...
At week's end came the first giving of ground. South Africa's commissioner of police curtly announced that to relieve the "tremendous tension," police would no longer ask Africans to show-or arrest them for failure to carry-the hated passbooks. It represented the first major retreat...
Some unhappy master whom unmerciful disaster Followed fast and followed faster."
Don Dropped. After last October's defeat, moderate Leader Hugh Gaitskell advanced his own reason for the disaster. Labor's 40-year-old constitutional pledge to nationalize practically everything had scared off the prosperous middle-class and working-class voters of present-day Britain, he said, and ought...
''I've told everybody to anticipate disaster, fiasco, failure." says Playwright William (The Time of Your Life) Saroyan of his new show. Its title: The London Comedy, or Sam the Highest Jumper of Them All. But as he races to get ready for opening night at London...