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Word: disasterously (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Usage:

(threatened nuclear disaster), Decatur, Ala. (armed Ku Kluxers on the rampage), and Meridian, Miss, (serious flooding).

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Kentucky: Defiant Mice from City Hall | 7/23/1979 | See Source »

The formal program is obviously valuable. But like women at their first consciousness-raising session, the mayors are utterly delighted to find other people who share, and above all, understand their problems. As they chat they soon find themselves finishing each other's sentences like old friends. Paul Doutrich...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Kentucky: Defiant Mice from City Hall | 7/23/1979 | See Source »

Noyce uses documentary footage most effectively as social and political commentary. Although he embraces the simplicity, innocence and parochialism of the people he films, he casts a wiser eye on the cold was suppression of communism and the rigid posturing of the Church. Sometimes the newsreels do blend into the...

Author: By Katherine P. States, | Title: Between the Idea and the Reality | 7/17/1979 | See Source »

While most Americans neither mourned nor feared Skylab's menacing death, some saw in it yet another in a series of examples of technology outracing man's means of control. A sequence of human and mechanical failures never envisioned by its builders had nearly caused the meltdown of a nuclear...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Skylab's Fiery Fall | 7/16/1979 | See Source »

First there was the crash in May of the American Airlines DC-10 in Chicago, taking the lives of 275 people in the worst U.S. air disaster. Lloyd's underwriters hold 16.5% of the coverage of that flight, which could cost them many millions. If the plane is found...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Fabled Lloyd's Takes a Bath | 7/16/1979 | See Source »

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