Word: disasterously
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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The London Sunday Express called her "the lady nobody loves," and the Sun declared: "She is the most unpopular woman in Britain." Edward Britten, the general secretary of the National Union of Teachers, has said that her policies are "producing chaos." To former Laborite Education Minister Edward Short, she is...
What doomed them was a catastrophe that rose from the bowels of the earth. Some time about the year 1500 B.C., Santorini exploded. The whole center of the island blew skyhigh. Not long afterward the sea rushed in to fill the red-hot wound of the crater. These two events...
Such is the scenario proposed by Professor Marinatos, the autocratic old genius of Greek archaeology, who has spent the past four summers excavating the rich Minoan town that he discovered on Santorini. The site of his dig is shrouded in rosy dust, shaded by tin-roof sheds, and shielded by...
The nation seems more intent upon recounting past horrors than on reconstruction. Daily newspaper stories of the Pakistani massacre-Prime Minister Sheik Mujibur Rahman estimates it claimed 3,000,000 lives-rate bigger headlines than the problem of rebuilding the 150 factories destroyed or disabled. When Indian forces leave on...
The Crimson, painfully aware of other transitory leads that had ended in losses earlier in the afternoon, began to feel the pangs of uneasiness that precede disaster. However, Tatrallyay's fifth and winning point put Harvard at ease, as the team erupted into a shrieking coyote yell--the squad's...