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Word: disasterous (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Can an idealistic democracy learn to operate its foreign policy on a cold, calculating, day-to-day basis? Can it break the cycle of military lethargy and emotional fist-shaking, learn to think in terms of "rational and restricted purposes" and withstand the shrill cries of press and politicians who...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: The Perils of Idealism | 9/17/1951 | See Source »

Texas City's industries are keeping pace. The giant Monsanto Chemical plant, a blackened ruin after the 1947 disaster, has been rebuilt (total cost: $50 million). Other industries have spent $28,500,000 on new buildings, plan to put up another $44 million worth.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TEXAS: City Rebuilt | 9/3/1951 | See Source »

'Tont Pis." Thus last week ended another chapter in the sorry story of a Western failure in Iran. As the earnest agent of a belated U.S. effort to avert disaster in the oil-rich Middle East, Harriman tried to end the chapter more happily. In five weeks at Teheran...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Shock Treatment | 9/3/1951 | See Source »

When generals (or politicians) run out of ideas on how to win a fight, they are apt to lean heavily on the hope that the enemy will collapse from some weakness in his own ranks. U.S. foreign policy strategists comfort themselves with just such a hope. Secretary of State Dean...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: War: STALIN & CHAIRMAN MAO | 8/13/1951 | See Source »

Old hands to the Road's tricky 14-mile course, the British quickly swung into a 3 to 1 lead, needed only one more victory to rule the waves. Then a minor disaster sent the Americans' fortunes even lower: the helmsman of Goose (from Oyster Bay, N.Y.) fell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Victory at Cowes | 8/13/1951 | See Source »

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