Word: disasterously
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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FOR George McGovern, the polls were still carrying intimations of disaster. Americans, said Louis Harris, favor Nixon over McGovern by 63% to 29%, a devastating 34% lead. There was even a poll that showed McGovern trailing Nixon, 54% to 30%, in his home state of South Dakota. A TIME Citizens...
In Seoul each haruspex plied his specialty. There were no packs of cards to read ("That seems awfully amateurish to us," said Asano) or crystal balls ("That's a fake"). Instead, the astrologers cast horoscopes, the bamboo-stick men studied hoigaku, the science of directions. Asano's specialty...
Brazil's new hero comes by his chosen profession naturally enough. His father, a former competition driver, is a motor-racing journalist and broadcaster. His mother, who named her son after Ralph Waldo Emerson, has raced sports cars. His older brother Wilson, 28, also races on the Grand Prix...
The "disaster" occurred on the ice of the Montreal Forum, where the Soviet Union's national hockey team trounced Team Canada-35 All-Stars of the National Hockey League-by a thumping score of 7-3 in the first of an eight-game series. What was more, the Russians...
But in crowded shipping lanes like the English Channel, this maneuver may be an invitation to disaster; the lumbering vessel needs vast stretches of open water for such turns.