Word: disasterously
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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The psychological effects of disaster are intensified by the swiftness with which it strikes. The crash in the Everglades of a Miami-bound jet last fortnight came as a complete surprise.
One horrifying image recurrently surfaced in her mind during introductory work on a novel, or at the end of a piece. Bell notices that "the fin rising on a wide bland sea," was both a signal of disaster and an admonition that new ideas for another novel were quickening within...
As many of its older survivors knew from firsthand experience, Managua was disaster-prone. In 1885 and again in 1931, the city was virtually leveled by quakes, with heavy loss of life (some 1,450 died in the 1931 catastrophe). Lying along the "circle of fire," a ring of volcanoes...
In the days that followed the disaster, as those who stayed behind in a city without water, electricity or food fought among themselves and with authorities for survival, the geological tragedy became a human one. Shooting broke out frequently between troops and bands of looters who roamed the savaged city...
The nadir came in 1958, when Pearson, newly named as leader of Canada's Liberal Party, lost an election to a Tory firebrand prairie lawyer named John Diefenbaker by the most lopsided margin in Canadian history. It was the first of four elections in a decade-long political duel...