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Word: disasterous (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Most Western diplomats hold that if Kassem ever does give way on the arming of the People's Resistance Force, the point of no return will have been passed in Iraq. Some pessimistic observers argue that Kassem is already so much a prisoner of the Reds that it is...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IRAQ: The Dissembler | 4/13/1959 | See Source »

The Strength of a Saw. Whether proud Francisco Franco will agree to such painful reforms is questionable. But even if he does not get the IMF loan, he is confident that the U.S. and other anti-Communist powers will not stand by and let his regime succumb to economic disaster...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SPAIN: 20 Years After | 4/13/1959 | See Source »

Understandably upset over the disaster, Governor Bernard induced the Legislature to vote funds to rebuild Harvard Hall, to buy a fire engine for the College and to aid students who lost books and furniture. Donations of money and books were sent from all over the Colonies-and even from the...

Author: By Robert E. Smith, | Title: Officials Cool to Harvard Fires But Blazes Ignite Student Spirit | 4/9/1959 | See Source »

Collision Course, by Alvin Mosca, an account of the Andrea Doria disaster, and Tomorrow Never Came, by Max Caulfield, the story of the torpedoed British liner Athenia, skillfully raise ghost ships from the depths of forgetfulness.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: Time Listings, Apr. 6, 1959 | 4/6/1959 | See Source »

In his sixth straight term as Michigan's Governor, Democrat G. Mennen Williams is awash up to his green bow tie in money troubles. Last week he sputtered that the Republican majority in the Michigan senate had "doomed the state to a financial disaster" by rejecting his plea for...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MICHIGAN: Financial Disaster | 3/23/1959 | See Source »

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