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Word: disasterous (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Export-Import Bank. As the situation ran toward disaster, Grady lumbered persistently between the stiff-necked British and the sagging iron cot of Iran's Premier Mossadeq. "He loves me," said Grady. To all who would listen, he complained that Washington had let him down. The Harriman mission was...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN RELATIONS: Three Shifts | 9/24/1951 | See Source »

The expert Harvardman, therefore, must be practiced in Studymanship and Sexmanship. He must also be a Cultureman, steeped in the arts, high above the common herd in aesthetic sensibility. The Cultureman must have a carefully selected library including several rather seedy books, "picked up in a tiny bookstall on the...

Author: By John R. W. smail, | Title: Expert Harvardman Overwhelms Classmates With Policy of Studymanship, Sexmanship | 9/21/1951 | See Source »

"If students must have cars at the University," he added, "they will have to get them off the streets and park them behind the Business School or some other parknig lot." He stated that the cars parked all night could create a disaster since they would block incoming fire engines...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Police to Permit Parking at Night For 2 Week Term | 9/21/1951 | See Source »

The expert Harvardman, therefore, must be practiced in Studymanship and Sexmanship. He must also be a Cultureman, steeped in the arts, high above the common herd in aesthetic sensibility. The Cultureman must have a carefully selected library including several rather seedy books, "picked up in a tiny bookstall on the...

Author: By John R. W. smail, | Title: Expert Harvardman Overwhelms Classmates With Policy of Studymanship, Sexmanship | 9/20/1951 | See Source »

"If students must have cars at the University," he added, "they will have to get them off the streets and park them behind the Business School or some other parking lot." He stated that the cars parked all night could create a disaster since they would block incoming fire engines...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Police to Permit Parking at Night For 2 Week Term | 9/20/1951 | See Source »

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