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Word: disasterous (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Yet Malenkov has at his disposal an apparatus of tyranny beyond anything known in the past. Julius Caesar, who went to the Senate unarmed on the Ides of March, had to deal with-and to a degree respect-a tradition of freedom, almost absent in Russia. Napoleon I, who vainly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Death In The Kremlin: What Next? | 3/16/1953 | See Source »

This week, as the Federal Civil Defense Administration plan for A-day shaped up, it was clear that Godfrey and Murrow will have help in the supply of friendly and reassuring voices in the event of disaster. Other radio-TV personalities are slated to spell Godfrey and Murrow over a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Recognition Value | 3/2/1953 | See Source »

One of the most significant results pro- duced by the apparatus is that a much clearer understanding of the flow phenomenan called "surge" has been gained. When air is sucked into the compressor of a jet engine, there are certain air speeds at which the whole air mass pulsates. "Surge...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard Carries on Aeronautical Research . . . | 2/27/1953 | See Source »

Dulles took pains to report European misgivings about U.S. leadership: "It is conceded that we have the material power, but it is questioned whether we have the accumulated wisdom to make the best use of that power. They are particularly concerned because they have now to deal with a new...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN RELATIONS: Report on Europe | 2/23/1953 | See Source »

In St. Paul, Minn, last week, Secretary of Agriculture Ezra Taft Benson rose before a farm audience of 3,000 to repeat two points he had been expounding in Washington: 1) price supports should be used only as "insurance against disaster," 2) farmers "should not be placed in the position...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AGRICULTURE: Bawls & Bellows | 2/23/1953 | See Source »

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