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Word: disasterous (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Jocasta. As a last warning of all, on their wedding night they are both hopelessly sleepy. In the final scene some 17 years later, Oedipus is warned again-this time against probing into the past. Everyone treats him with a kind of imploring "Ask me no questions and I'...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Plays in Manhattan, Feb. 17, 1958 | 2/17/1958 | See Source »

Two months ago Ceylon was struck by a major natural disaster. Blinding monsoon rains washed half a million people from their homes and breached 500 of the earthen irrigation tanks that the civilization of antiquity bequeathed to the cultivators of the island's food crops. U.S. Ambassador Maxwell Gluck...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CEYLON: Conflict & Complacency | 2/10/1958 | See Source »

Menderes is gambling that he can create an industrialized Turkey in a matter of years without quite slipping over the brink into economic disaster. So far, he is still ahead on his gamble. In his heedless impatience, he has achieved things that more reasonable men would never have attempted. Turkey...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TURKEY: The Impatient Builder | 2/3/1958 | See Source »

Suddenly disaster. The Germans break through at Caporetto, and the Italian army dissolves. In the confusion the hero is arrested as an enemy agent, but he escapes and deserts. He takes his girl to Switzerland, where they are blissfully happy. Then she dies in childbirth.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Feb. 3, 1958 | 2/3/1958 | See Source »

Young Hunnicutt learns about his father's extramarital reputation the hard way when the girl he loves is kept away from him by her prudish father. Gradually Theron learns or senses nearly everything that has poisoned the lives of his parents, and Home from the Hill becomes a sad...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: New American Tragedy | 1/27/1958 | See Source »

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