Word: disasterously
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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New Yorkers are disaster-prone, and they rather relish it. Muggings, burglaries, strikes and technological failures of all kinds form part of the daily news fare. A New Yorker would count the day lost if he could not regale an out-of-towner, or a friend, or himself, with some...
It would be an understatement to say that many Harvard undergraduates remain unimpressed by the compulsory language courses. General reaction ranges from. "Well, it could be worse," to "Goddmann, it screws my entire freshman year!" There are of course, those students who maintain they are extremely pleased with their language...
The most devastating cyclones in history have boiled up out of the Bay of Bengal. In 1876, one of them took 100,000 lives in half an hour. In 1942, a wall of sea water 30 ft. high, advancing in front of 120-m.p.h. winds, washed over 5,000 sq...
"Today, we are facing the edge of disaster," Carver said. Negotiations have been cancelled. The inmates at Walpole are locked in their cells for the second time in less than a month."
"When you are describing a disaster," Ronald Glasser explains, "you talk to the victims." Glasser is a young Minneapolis pediatrician who was drafted in 1968 and assigned to the Army hospital at Camp Zama, Japan. His job there was to care for the children of military families. But his attention...