Word: disasterous
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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It was the destroyer's task to perform the maneuver with her in such a manner as to be instantly ready to save any pilot who went into the sea from a bad landing. It was also her task to avoid the carrier's 27,100-ton hull...
Dr. Frederick May Eliot, veteran (for 15 years) president of the American Unitarian Association, has his own estimate of the mood of orthodox Protestantism today: "Black reaction and black pessimism." The doctrine being emphasized, said Dr. Eliot at a Unitarian meeting in Cincinnati, "is one of absolute despair, which sets...
[That] presupposes that the Labor-Management Relations Act of 1947 [the Taft-Hartley law] is inadequate when it has not yet been tried, and is the statute provided by Congress to meet just such an emergency. And it further presupposes, as defendant apparently does, that, this statute being inadequate, Congress...
Rarely does the ex-President let the story of his twelve years in Washington get in the way of statistical detail, but occasionally a light note slips in, e.g., the time that hornyhanded Senator Norbeck of South Dakota, in the midst of a powerful political delivery at dinner, placed his...
"This nation is still in deadly peril. We have an Army confronting the enemy in the field. We have troops and bases at vital points overseas . . . Until the Kremlin shows by deeds that it is willing to abandon its aggressive designs, we must prepare to prevent disaster. This may be...