Word: disasterously
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Last month Angus was accepted by Harvard, and the dream seemed nearer. Quite suddenly, disaster struck his family once again: his mother suffered a stroke, and she too became bedridden. It seemed the dream would have to be deferred, until a reporter for the Southern Illinoisan wrote about Angus'...
Neighboring Mozambique provides landlocked Rhodesia with its principal outlet to the sea. The Portuguese territory is also a major infiltration route for black Rhodesian insurgents returning home from training camps in Tanzania. Black rule would mean a certain end to the virtual carte blanche that Rhodesian security forces now enjoy...
The day was somewhat gray. But it was spring, and the crowds of Dubliners bustling homeward at 5:30 p.m. last Friday were looking forward to a fine Irish weekend. What 23 of them got instead was sudden death as three powerful bombs exploded in the center of the capital...
The referendum vote was a disaster for the neo-Fascists and a major setback for the church-backed Christian Democrats. The election results will likely weaken the already fragile two-month-old coalition government (Italy's 36th since the war) headed by Christian Democratic Premier Mariano Rumor. Though Rumor...
Yet, though the economists predicted some slowing of price increases, few saw any chance of bringing the rate for the full year below 10%. Greenspan predicts that retail prices will go up 10.4% for the year, making 1974 "the first calendar year of double-digit inflation since 1947." Eckstein frankly...