Word: disasterous
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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The Alibi. In January 1949, when he became Secretary after a brief interim with his old Washington law firm Acheson therefore inherited some of the policies and problems which he had helped create. Although he might have preferred to turn his back on the East, he was prodded into facing...
The crash of the ill-starred C-46 is reminiscent of the Seattle disaster two years ago when a chartered DC-3 flipped into the ice at Boeing Fild and killed 11 Yale students returning from their Christmas holidays. None of the 49 passengers, many of whom had been vacationing...
From Rome: Italians would dread war under any circumstances, and the Korean disaster has alarmed and discouraged them. But the U.S.'s prestige does not depend on current setbacks or advances. Italians have seen too many of war's ups & downs to appraise the U.S. solely or even...
"Anything, Anywhere." What had happened in northeast Korea was proof that even in disaster and defeat the most significant element of U.S. power was mobility. In the amphibious campaigns of World War II the U.S. had developed with stunning success the techniques of transporting power by sea. Those techniques were...
¶ The West might still avert disaster through accelerated rearmament and more aid to have-not peoples, provided that Russia was not yet ready for total war.