Word: disasterous
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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...
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.
'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...
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...
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...