Word: disasterous
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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The Communists did their best to exploit the disaster. First they spread the rumor that U.S. A-bomb experiments had caused all the rainfall and the flood. A surprising number of Italians seemed to believe such nonsense. Not missing a trick, the Communists then demanded that the Rome government divert...
Mossadegh's visit seemed to have achieved only one concrete result-to widen the disagreement between the U.S. ; and Great Britain over Mossadegh himself. Washington regards him as an honest fanatic who is hard to deal with, but preferable to the Communist Tudeh Party which might take over Iran...
If United Fruit has to quit in Guatemala, that will liquidate an investment of some $30 million for the parent company in Boston. But for Guatemala's 13,000 best-paid agricultural workers, and for 6,000 best-paid railroad workers, it will be an even greater disaster.
But youth is taking its upsetting uncertainties with extraordinary calm. When the U.S. began to realize how deeply it had committed itself in Korea, youngsters of draft age had a bad case of jitters; but all reports agree that they have since settled down to studying or working for as...
Asia, is faced with steering the lifeboats and supervising the disaster teams. The Moslem world, frantic to shake off oppression and poverty that it ascribes solely (and not altogether correctly) to Western exploitation, has frequently responded with a fanatical and irresponsible nationalism. That way is apt to lead to continued...