Word: disasterous
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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But amidst the pollution, France still had no government. Conservative Antoine Pinay, the third man to try to end the present crisis, carried his candidacy to the National Assembly, where he warned of "financial disaster," demanded power to dissolve the Assembly and call for new elections if he should lose...
Just Philip. There must have seemed few less likely candidates for this job than the little Greek princeling who was born on the island of Corfu on June 10, 1921. Philip was the fifth child and only son of tall, monocled Prince Andrew, brother of King Constantine of Greece. By...
He had other observations. It was a "disaster for mankind" that Communist China has not been admitted to the U.N. He was not pleased with Konrad Adenauer, the friend of NATO, apostle of free enterprise and foe of Communism. "The government of Western Germany," blurted Nye, "is coming more and...
Judging by these somewhat frantic goings-on, an observer would think that a major catastrophe was about to occur. Asian flu, however, need not be a disaster at all. Scientifically, its symptoms are runny noses, back and head aches, sneezing and muscular pains. A Harvard medical official described it a...
It was an "irrevocable disaster" which not only rendered impossible Napoleon's invasion of England, but made inevitable England's invasion of France. "Trajalgar was the prelude to Waterloo," concludes Maine, and in memory of it, "French and English sailors to this day wear a black cravat round...