Word: disasterous
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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The Great Question. The war already has nearly destroyed the Korean nation. "I have seen, I guess, as much blood and disaster as any living man and it just curdled my stomach, the last time I was there. After I looked at that wreckage and those thousands of women and...
MACARTHUR: "That policy . . . seems to me to introduce a new concept into military operations-the concept of appeasement, the concept that when you use force you can limit that force ... If you practice appeasement in the use of force, you are doomed to disaster."
"Our allies agree with us in the course we are following ... If the United States were to widen the conflict, we might well have to go it alone. If we go it alone in Asia, we may destroy the unity of the free nations against aggression. Our European allies are...
The cave of Ghar Hotu lies near the North Iranian village of Turujan, just south of Behshahr, about three miles from the Caspian. In the remote past, the sea lapped at its entrance. Primitive men built fires there and stared out across the dark waters. One cool evening, thousands of...
The ostrich feather business has one thing in common with the buggy-whip industry and the horse. All three were ruined by Henry Ford. When women began riding in open automobiles before World War I, they had to discard their majestic hats, crowned with glossy ostrich plumes. That spelled disaster...