Word: disasterously
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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The official toll of dead and missing stood at 200,000 by week's end, and there were predictions that it would eventually triple or even quintuple. The cyclone was thus guaranteed its place as the 20th century's worst natural disaster. In all, the storm devastated a...
Privileged Families. Leaders of East Pakistan's Peking-and Moscow-oriented parties seized on the relief debacle to reinforce their demands for more autonomy for their region. The cyclone aftermath deepened the hate and envy felt by East Pakistan's dark, rice-eating Bengalis for the taller, fairer...
Pikes and Swords. Soon there came a far more serious disaster-the Nazi invasion of June 22, 1941. At first, Soviet commanders were ordered not to return the German artillery fire. Says Khrushchev: "Stalin was so afraid of war that he convinced himself that Hitler would keep his word and...
Man, Cioran argues in the chapter on "The Tree of Life," really chose the wrong tree in preferring knowledge to life. "Once we know," he writes, "we are at odds with everything." For instead of serving man, reason "affords him arguments against himself." History Cioran reads as the disaster of...
Chile had an earthquake, Pakistan got a tidal wave, and the United States ended up with Santa Claus. Yet, we have celebrated our disaster and have been too shallow to realize the damage he has done to our moral fiber.