Word: disasterously
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Disaster Area. For the Democrats, it has become obvious that, win or lose, they are left with the problem of marking out new constituencies. After nearly 40 years, the coalition assembled by Franklin Roosevelt is in the final throes of disintegration, a process that was slowed down but not halted...
If his intution about football games had been as deep as his knowledge of himself, he would today be a very rich man. But, casting aside last week's mini-disaster, let us turn to this afternoon's Ivy League football slate.
Kamikaze Foxes. Communists sometimes gather fireflies in glasses for illumination. Occasionally, they carry owls to the perimeters of Vietnamese outposts: to superstitious Vietnamese, the hoot of an owl is a dire sign of impending disaster. Back in the days of guerrilla war, some Viet Cong outfits even trained kamikaze foxes...
Caper flicks, as the trade calls them invariably involve some lovable folk; who pull off an enormous and improbable heist, only to be foiled in the last reel by a freakish turn of fate. Disaster can come in many forms: a runaway poodle (The Killing), a cremated coffin (Ocean'...
Jell-O v. Concrete. The opinion polls have consistently portended disaster, but by diminishing margins. Humphrey trailed Nixon by 16 points in an August Gallup poll and 12 points this month. A new national sampling scheduled to come out this week will show Nixon's lead reduced to eight...