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Word: disasterous (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Mr. Dulles should be congratulated for the firmness of his recent warnings to Peking. Weakening by the Americans would be a disaster. If Mao gets away with seizure of Quemoy, his next target may well be Hong Kong.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Sep. 29, 1958 | 9/29/1958 | See Source »

What had happened to change a routine run into disaster? One answer came clear when an autopsy on Engineer Wilburn showed evidence of hypertensive heart disease-suggesting that he had died suddenly of a heart attack. But where was Fireman Andrew, whose duty it was to check his engineer past...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DISASTERS: A Lousy Way to Die | 9/29/1958 | See Source »

In Marquand novels, the women all want to live on Easy Street and the men never can decide what street they want to live on. The hero of the latest Marquand. Playwright Tom Harrow, has been living on Easy Street for a quarter-century, and his wives with him. Now...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: That Was No Lady... | 9/29/1958 | See Source »

Representatives from the Cambridge Red Cross disaster squad, led by Edward Crane '35, arrived shortly after the blaze broke out to assist units from the Salvation Army in passing out coffee and doughnuts to firemen chilled by cold water and a 49 degree temperature.

Author: By Edmund B.GAMES Jr., | Title: 2-Alarm Fire Guts Varsity Club | 9/29/1958 | See Source »

¶THE WORLD OF SUZIE WONG, an adaptation of Richard Mason's bestselling novel, flounced into Boston dressed in Designer Jo Mielziner's spectacular sets -a revolving stage with great, gaudy panels that slide in and out, up and down, through dancing and disaster, life and death. The...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Report from the Road | 9/22/1958 | See Source »

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