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Word: disasterous (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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The sobering fact is that the $6.6 billion farm program has become a disaster of such magnitude that it deserves far better than partisan exploitation. So twisted and distorted is the normal farm economy because of subsidies that no honest candidate can propose an overnight solution. But by the same...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATION: Ezra Benson's Harvest | 11/23/1959 | See Source »

In general, combining introductory and General Education courses for Humanities or Social Sciences would be a disaster; departmental use of Gen Ed weakens its standing as an independent program. If the Committee can do no more than supervise a series of introductory courses, it will continue to lose prestige with...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Nat Sci Dilemma | 11/19/1959 | See Source »

"People Are Looking." With the immemorial necessity of "Outs" in all campaigns, the Democrats were reaching for an issue. In a time of evident prosperity, the "slow corrosion" issue turned prosperity from the world's wonder to a road to wickedness and decadence. But the issue gained strength from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATION: The Issue of Purpose | 11/16/1959 | See Source »

Almost from the start, the Syrians had had second thoughts about their impulsive merger. The job of whipping Syria into line was given to Interior Minister Abdel Hamid Serraj a ruthless local strongman who had wholeheartedly committed himself to Nasser. Serraj clapped hundreds of Communists into jail, tortured "recantations" out...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Try to Be Happy | 11/16/1959 | See Source »

The Highest Tree (by Dore Schary) is a disaster of good intentions. The author of Sunrise at Campobello is writing in protest: he is one of the people who, aware of the danger of strontium 90 in the air, would ban further nuclear test explosions. Playwright Schary's central...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Plays on Broadway, Nov. 16, 1959 | 11/16/1959 | See Source »

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