Word: disasterously
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Nobody could decide whose fault the disaster was. Republican Gov. Arch Moore, facing a tough campaign for re-election in November, disclaimed any fault of Pittston's. (Later, in the face of mounting public pressure, he would appoint an ad hoc committee to investigate the disaster; the committee turned up...
Despite these ingredients of fictional disaster-plus a temptation to relate everything to "feminism"-A Fine Romance deserves a reading. Seton makes such charming, well-written excuses for her clichés: "There's an inherent plotlessness one has to contend with in the lives of civilized people, you...
The encounter between the Virginia gentleman and what he called "a mixed multitude of people" was dramatic. At first, disgruntled soldiers went home in shoals and there was a wave of courts-martial. A number of officers were broken. Thirty and 40 lashes for insubordination became a regular punishment. To...
THE MIDDLE ATLANTIC. Laurence I. Barrett reports: If the election were held today, Reagan would have virtually no chance against Carter in New York, Pennsylvania and New Jersey; his prospects in Maryland and Delaware would be very slim. Ford would probably not win these states either, but he would make...
Meloy, 59, a reserved and well-respected career diplomat who had arrived in Beirut only five weeks before, after serving in Guatemala and the Dominican Republic, posts the State Department considers to be high-risk jobs, was on the way to his first call on Lebanese President-elect Elias Sarkis...