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Word: disasterously (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Although the prospect of disaster has been apparent to food experts since last winter, Haiti's President for Life Jean-Claude Duvalier, 23, formally declared a food emergency only six weeks ago. Belatedly the government has provided a few thousand dollars to charter trucks carrying food over washboard-rough...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HAITI: Island of Hunger | 7/7/1975 | See Source »

As an Alaskan, I have a ringside seat at the tragedy that is unfolding here [June 2]. Men of greed will exploit and plunder this beautiful land. I am not against progress, but based on man's past performance I can only see disaster looming.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Forum, Jun. 23, 1975 | 6/23/1975 | See Source »

Jaws, which opens in 490 theaters this week, is part of a bracing revival of high adventure films and thrillers over the past few months (see box page 44). It is expensive ($8 million), elaborate, technically intricate and wonderfully crafted, a movie whose every shock is a devastating surprise. Like...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SUMMER OF THE SHARK | 6/23/1975 | See Source »

The making of a movie on the scale of Jaws, however, is a case study in the recklessness, stubbornness, blindness and bravado that go into a Hollywood superproduction. Like many extravaganzas before it, Jaws courted its own calamities. It is an unnatural law of film making that the larger the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SUMMER OF THE SHARK | 6/23/1975 | See Source »

The spring campaign, however, was not a total disaster. Harvard played well at times, well enough to lose by a little instead of a lot.

Author: By Kim G. Davis, | Title: The Bitter and the Sweet Flavor Sports Seasons | 6/12/1975 | See Source »

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