Word: disasterously
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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By the time Rubens had finished amplifying the battle-piece theme in later paintings, the source of hundreds of battle pictures and painted disaster ep ics in the 18th and 19th centuries had been laid, even down to the kind of horses. Rubens' standard horse, a prancing, thick-barrelled...
ON POLLUTION CONTROL. It's just disaster. In our own plants, the estimated bill for air-and water-pollution control equipment is $64 million this year. It's $107 million in 1976 and $164 million in 1977. In a sense that's all nonproductive money. We don...
"I'm sorry," came back Ford, "I disagree with you . . . we've looked at every possible option. They were piled high . . . we were on the threshold of disaster . . . we have got to have action."
Unlike Nevins and Catton, Foote devotes little space to the political context of the war-the angry riptides of the 1850s, the drift into disaster. His attention is focused on the righting itself -fortifications, tactics, the strange chemistries of leadership, the workings in the generals' minds. Among other things...
Repeatedly, Rooney tries to phone one private contractor who is presumably performing the innocent task of rewriting all Navy technical manuals on a 9th-grade reading level; no one will talk to Rooney. He stops by to chat with Admiral Frederick Palmer, who is directing the textbook project for the...