Word: disasterously
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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With the impending Humphrey disaster which will probably carry the senatorial candidate down to defeat, an active liberal campaign by Kennedyite Michael Mills for the 1969 gubernatorial nomination against the dispirited regulars could conceivably put Mills in office. Once in office the patronage--which still controls vitually all the politics...
The trouble with that approach is that it is often the regulars who pick up the pieces after a disaster; witness the comeback of Richard Nixon, the G.O.P.'s man-in-the-middle after the party's monumental 1964 drubbing. Even if the McCarthyite irregulars were to succeed...
The thalidomide tragedy could not have been foreseen because the combination effect had not been observed previously, or even suspected. Wuest insisted, however, that "the tools are now available" to prevent the repetition of such a disaster, if drug researchers take care to test their compounds in animals such as...
In a tournament that was a disaster for the professionals, 13 of whom lost to amateurs, Ashe himself defeated three pros. To get past Okker, a dogged retriever and a swift, agile shotmaker, Ashe had to play his best tennis ever. He hit 26 service aces, prompting Old Pro Pancho...
In Europe and the U.S., Latin America and the Middle East, dirt-poor farmers and peasants whose forebears never dreamed of leaving the land are trekking to cities by the millions. Instead of finding the promised good life and good pay, most of them end up in a demoralized, debt...