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Word: disasterous (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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"Our measures are designed to make money scarcer and more expensive," he said, "to make it harder both to earn profits and to get wage increases." Thorneycroft announced that the government would veto all wage increases for its own employees in the ministries and nationalized industries, hoped thereby to set...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: No Wage Increase | 11/11/1957 | See Source »

After that disaster, she broke with her father, stopped playing the piano and started the long process of turning herself into a normal human being. She went to the University of California, fell in love with a fellow student, and at 19 told her father that they were getting married...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Return of the Prodigy | 11/11/1957 | See Source »

One of the last enterprises in the world free from government regulation is facing disaster.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: On the Sidewalk | 11/5/1957 | See Source »

Labor foreign affairs spokesman Aneurin Bevan last night told the Harvard Law School Forum that "the world faces complete disaster unless some new initiative is taken," and that "the Free World has lost control of its destiny." He questioned the effectiveness of Western diplomacy, and stated that "we should invent...

Author: By Alan H. Grossman, | Title: Nye Bevan Declares World Near Disaster | 11/2/1957 | See Source »

One of Florida's largest landowners last week agreed to shell out $3,700,000 for the choice 42,000-acre Rudolphus Keene cattle ranch along the Saint Johns River. The buyer, whose holdings of Florida cattle land now total 360,000 acres: the Church of Jesus Christ of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Something in the Sock | 10/28/1957 | See Source »

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