Word: disasterous
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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That was Manager Fisher's explanation. A little harder to explain was the fact that the second-night audience was just as hostile. Lifar himself was not talking. But if revenge was what Lifar's friends were looking for, they found it even sweeter in the reaction of...
Reforestation was now a well-developed technique. Big companies like Weyerhaeuser collected tons of fir seed, cleaned it with special machinery and planted it as carefully as farmers planting cabbage. The industry made pulp, plywood and innumerable new products. But like Puget Sound's fleet of salmon trollers and...
In Washington, the safety-conscious Association of American Railroads went much farther; it wanted to discourage people from singing the song, because it perpetuated the memory of a disaster. Hoping to start a different trend, the association mailed out to U.S. editors a new ballad composed by Folk Singer L...
Churchill has plaited into this book a whole fistful of narrative threads. It was a year of almost continuous desert warfare, of disaster in Greece and Crete, of crippling losses to U-boats, of devastating blitz, of almost unbroken defeat. What is much more remarkable than their coherent presentation is...
Speaking at a conference of The Nation Associates at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel, Fairbank criticized "the current effort to use our disaster in China as a weapon in domestic politics" as not only "a disgrace to the Republicans who are doing it, but an advertisement of our intellectual weakness concerning...