Word: disasterous
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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But one who can justly claim that no man was ever under heavier or more cruel stress and survived it in good mental and physical health is Herbert Hoover, 84. One of only five U.S. Presidents to have reached fourscore, and the first in 100 years,*Hoover endured not only...
There is time, but precious little. The decent people of the South have a moral necessity to take their stand on the side of law and order; the alternatives of violence and destruction can lead only to disaster and death.
Boulris' brilliant punting played a key role in this containing effort. Several times when the Crimson attack stalled, he sent the Lions back deep in their own ground with his kicks, and in the third period he prevented a possible disaster. Set to punt from the Harvard 30, he got...
The Sleepy Recruit. To Ferhat Abbas, who deplores violence, the Algerian war at first seemed an unmitigated disaster. During the early months of the revolt he tried to act as an intermediary between the F.L.N. and the French. But in February 1956, when a shower of rotten tomatoes thrown by...
Only a year ago the Tory government of Harold Macmillan was losing one by-election after another, and Labor felt certain of its return to power. But since summer, as Britons' wrath at the Tories' Suez disaster faded, and once unpopular Tory anti-inflationary measures began building a...