Word: disasterously
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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As a portent, the fallen oak may not be in the same league as the events that the Historian Livy claimed presaged disaster in ancient Rome: swamps turned the color of blood, chalk rained from the skies, a spear on a statue moved of its own accord, an ox talked...
Political crises occur so often in Italy that Italians-and indeed the rest of the world-hardly blink an eye when governments fall. After all, that political drama has taken place no fewer than 35 times in the past 31 years, and the life expectancy of an average Italian Cabinet...
Indeed, an ever-growing number of Texas businessmen will go to almost any length to avoid the delays and inconvenience of Dallas-Fort Worth. One Dallas businessman even flies from Love to Houston to take a connecting flight from there to Chicago or New York, and points out that this...
For all its arms and legs, the book remains something of a paper chase. Why? In part, one suspects, because the struggle occurs mostly in Little England, a political shire now shorn of power and purpose, where there may simply be too much central heating for the spy who comes...
Because the book also takes up the authors' beliefs about how so many historians misread the past-through misuse of figures, inadequate training in economics and statistics, reliance on isolated eyewitness accounts and subjective "impressions"-it offers a fascinating insight into how historians work, and how living political attitudes...