Word: disasterously
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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New movies. Usually by this time of year, when the Oscar nominations come out, and the Groundhog and the Valentines come out, and the senior theses come out, good new movies do nothing of the kind. It's the post-Christmas blight. This year as much as any Hollywood saved...
Next month New York Senator James Buckley will sponsor a more exclusive meeting of top-ranking conservatives to plan for 1976. Considering a move toward a third party to be a "disaster," Buckley wants to form a bloc to bring pressure on the G.O.P. national convention and put over a...
Are the rebates working? The automakers say that the $200 to $600 checks they have been offering to buyers of new cars since mid-January have saved the decline at the dealerships from turning into a disaster. Yet the 1975 models are still having a bumpy sales ride, to say...
From the stillborn Eagles, Parent found his way to the W.H.A.'s Philadelphia Blazers, signing a fat five-year $750,000 contract. That adventure too ended in disaster when Parent quit the team midway through the 1973 playoffs, claiming he had not been paid. Angry Blazer teammates called him...
Iron Will. Associates remember that in 1949, when his horse fell on him, crushing 23 of his 24 ribs, Douglas was undaunted: he was back on the bench six months later. In childhood he confounded doctors' expectations that his polio-stricken legs would forever be useless. In addition, Douglas...