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Word: disasterous (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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The reception to TIME'S reports of Latin America-whether ardent endorsement or furious disagreement-is always emphatic. TIME is apt to be denounced for printing a scandal of the reader's own country and praised by the same reader for exposing the unlovely truth in a neighboring...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Dec. 8, 1958 | 12/8/1958 | See Source »

Author McMinnies is not a novelist of the first rank, but her second book puts her well in the fore of the usual crowded field panting for the Ladies' Plate. The shrewd characters who make book on form -the book-clubmakers-have given her the accolade (Book-of-the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Silly Milly in Slavonia | 12/1/1958 | See Source »

I nominate not "one" Man of the Year, but a group of men: the rescued, the rescuers and the dead at the Springhill mine disaster.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 24, 1958 | 11/24/1958 | See Source »

After only four months, the Russo-Japanese war was turning into a Russian disaster. Banzai-shouting Japanese troops were pushing the Russians back in Manchuria; Port Arthur was cut off; and the proud Russian ships in the harbor were immobilized by the prowling warships of Japan's Admiral Togo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Long Voyage to Death | 11/24/1958 | See Source »

THE WALL STREET JOURNAL: THE responsibility for this disaster, when you come right down to it, must rest on President Eisenhower. It was he who had the sense of direction and lost it; it was he who should have nurtured a party to support his ideas and did not.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JUDGEMENTS & PROPHECIES: THE ELECTION: A POST-MORTEM | 11/17/1958 | See Source »

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