Word: disasterous
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Show business is the common-and uncommonly interesting-denominator of the immortal and the merely diverting, the sublime and the corny, the Greek amphitheater and the burlesque runway. It includes Bernard Shaw and the TV gag writer, Laurence Olivier and the Las Vegas chorus girl -as well as their audiences...
Such an engine, said Rocketdyne, will be the first designed deliberately for true space flight (the current U.S. lunar-probe projects plan to use a combination of existing military rocket engines). The big, single-chamber engine has major advantages. When more than four engines are clustered together, their pumps, fuel...
Age 8-Sent to school in Cairo, he shook his fist at R.A.F. planes flying overhead and shouted: "0 Almighty, may disaster overtake the British!" Two years later the constitution that the British had granted Egypt in 1922 was suspended, and Egypt was governed by decree.
"There is no evidence that the human race is to last forever and plenty in Scripture to the contrary effect. Though, as you say, the suffering entailed by nuclear war would be ghastly in its scale, one must remember that each person can only suffer so much; and I do...
Osteopathy got its start in 1864 when Virginia-born Dr. Andrew Taylor Still lost three of his children in a spinal meningitis epidemic in Kansas. Disgusted with medical methods that could not prevent such disaster. Physician Still proclaimed: "I believe that the Maker of man has deposited in the human...