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Word: disasterous (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Despite the danger, Camiguenos who have returned home are unwilling to leave. President Quirino, they say, promised them land on Mindanao if they migrated after the last eruption. They found nothing but broken promises. It may take another disaster to uproot them again.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Birth of an Island | 3/31/1952 | See Source »

In Cleveland's federal court last week, survivors of the S.S. Noronic disaster and relatives of the 119 victims who died when the Great Lakes excursion steamer burned at a Toronto dock in 1949 were awarded $2,150,000. It was the largest settlement ever made to passengers in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Hemisphere: Noronic Settlement | 3/10/1952 | See Source »

Herbert has a facial tic, especially when, as usual, he is worried. His eyes blink of themselves. On a park bench or in a railway train he is often startled, in the middle of agonized reflection about the insecurity of everything in the world, by the rising up of some...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Personality, Mar. 10, 1952 | 3/10/1952 | See Source »

Sir: Your Feb. 4 issue was the only magazine noting the passing of Major General Robert H. Soule. To most Americans he was just another "brasshat," but to the 18,000 officers and men who served under him the loss was great. "Shorty" Soule contributed more to our Korean campaign...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 25, 1952 | 2/25/1952 | See Source »

Yesterday morning's Elizabeth plane crash was an "eerie, fiery scene, with onlookers muttering angrily and determined to prevent a repetition of another New Jersey plane disaster," three Leverett House eye-witnesses at the accident told the CRIMSON yesterday.

Author: By Ernest Kafka, | Title: Three Leverett Witnesses Describe Elizabeth Crash Scene as 'Eerie' | 2/12/1952 | See Source »

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