Word: disasterously
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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It is difficult to imagine such a commercial venture being mounted anywhere else in the world. Twentieth Century-Fox took the nation's most ignominious military disaster since the burning of the White House in 1814, hired the man who planned it all to lend his expertise, and even...
The cities illustrate most clearly how the Democrats need a whole new strategy of public control to stave off social disaster. At present, the urban crisis falls into a no man's land of divided municipal, state, and federal authorities. None of them are held responsible for the urban problem...
> Dismemberment of the Agency for International Development, which now oversees almost all U.S. aid and whose bureaucracy has swollen in inverse proportion to the funding of its programs. It would be replaced by three smaller agencies: the U.S. International Development Corporation, to manage some direct economic assistance as well as...
The Mary Tyler Moore Show, on opening night at least, was a disaster for the old co-star of the Dick Van Dyke Show. She plays an inadvertent career girl, jilted by the rounder she put through medical school, and working as a "gofer" at a Minneapolis TV station. Her...
In 1941, the international balance was full of imponderables and uncertainties. But, Burns writes, "Roosevelt did not perceive them in this kind of systematic, categorized frame. He still preferred to deal with situations piecemeal, plucking the day's problem out of the tangle of events." Roosevelt's weaknesses...