Word: disasterously
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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What brought on Nixon's strident outburst was a physical assault on his campaign motorcade in San Jose, Calif., during the closing week of the campaign. It was an attack that came dangerously close to disaster, but it played perfectly into the President's political hands. Throughout the...
The closest Bandy came to success was early one morning in September, when he sneaked into one house while its five occupants slept and flushed them outdoors by spreading a pungent fumigant as a sort of psy-war comment on their personal hygiene. They regained the building. The nearest he...
In 1967, Leonard got involved in a Cambridge radical movement called Viet Nam Summer. Working with young left-wing professors, the S.D.S. and assorted revolutionaries, he wrote ads, pamphlets and did public relations. But at the end of the summer he left, disillusioned by the "disaster and disgrace" of the...
On the surface, the principal accomplishment of the nation's third biggest automaker this year would seem to have been avoiding disaster. In the first quarter, Chrysler lost only $29 million, rather than the $40 million that Wall Street had anticipated. In June it rounded up $800 million of...
Oates people are among the most painful characters in contemporary American fiction. Some are dullards entranced by chilling fogs of unsorted emotions who stumble into disaster and violence. Some are lovers whose needs are more alive than their satisfactions. Precocious youths and intelligent adults are driven to madness and suicide...