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Word: disasterous (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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If the new technique meets standards, civilian defense officials will use it to type the entire Cambridge community in the near future. The purpose will be to compile a list of potential donors in the event of a disaster in this area. Men who are typed on Tuesday will not...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lowell, Eliot Men Will Aid Blood Testing | 2/16/1951 | See Source »

To the bitter end, India's Sir Benegal Rau deplored the U.S. resolution branding Communist China an aggressor in Korea. It would take the world, he warned the U.N. General Assembly, down the road to disaster. It would mean: "No early ceasefire, every problem in the Far East unsolved...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: UNITED NATIONS: Branded | 2/12/1951 | See Source »

This was a heady experience; he found himself commanding the services of a special unit known as the Major Disaster Squad. Though the squad was officially charged with anticipating and preventing major conflagrations, it actually served a vastly different function. Its 60 hand-picked members, luxuriating in the regime of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW YORK: Smoke & Mire | 2/5/1951 | See Source »

Operation Disaster (J. Arthur Rank; Universal-International), like all submarine fiction, operates under a handicap. Jules Verne worked out most of the possibilities, and what he overlooked has been overworked since his time. Of all the variations, the plight of crewmen trapped 15 fathoms deep is probably the hardiest, and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Imports, Feb. 5, 1951 | 2/5/1951 | See Source »

In Look, battle-worn Correspondent Bigart flatly blamed MacArthur for the "unsound deployment of the United Nations forces and a momentous blunder." He shed an editorial tear for the "great tragedy that a man who served his country so nobly should be hounded and disparaged in the final hours of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Second Front | 1/29/1951 | See Source »

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