Word: disasterous
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Yet Truman stood up under successive blows. When cornered by disaster, as in the European crisis or the Red attack on South Korea, he reacted out of deeply rooted American principles. The Truman Doctrine, the Marshall Plan, the decision to defend South Korea are examples of the healthy Truman reflex...
The first half of the 20th century, observed Eisenhower, brought forth destructive conflicts that threatened the very base of Western civilization. "It seems almost as if the nations of the West have been, for decades, blindly enacting parts in a drama that could have been written by Lenin, prophet of...
In a remarkable lead editorial, the Review suggested that the Red regime of Mao Tse-tung may be racing toward a disaster "frightening in its immensity. The present domestic policy [of the Red government] involves a continuous series of convulsions which are shaking the economic machine to pieces . . . Propaganda of...
Caught In the Closet. Charles Laughton's love of the theater took a quarter-century to find its outlet. He was born in 1899 in the Victoria Hotel in Scarborough, a resort town on the east coast of England. As the eldest of the three sons of hotel-owning...
Novelist O'Hara has seized on a solid theme, but has not written a novel fully worthy of it. The Son of Adam Wyngate is a meandering, overstuffed family saga, all too full of the human tedium which the skilled novelist suggests without reporting in grim detail. Clumsily written...