Word: disasterous
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Eight Conservative members of Parliament immediately quit the government party as a protest against what they regarded as a surrender to Nasser. They said appeasement of any kind "leads only to disaster."
In less than four months in office, Macmillan has wrought a transformation. From the first, he refused to act like a man with his back to the wall. He put the disaster of Suez firmly behind him, and exuded confidence-in himself and in Britain.
Heaped into sacks and bundled under the stairs of his house, the Datini papers came to light again in 1870, little the worse for damp and mice. They included no fewer than 150,000 letters, more than 500 account books, 400 insurance policies, numerous ledgers-all of them adding up...
Last week Foreign Secretary Selwyn Lloyd announced that he was filing suit for divorce from his young (29) wife alleging adultery with one Martin Lubbock and bringing the Cabinet divorce rate to three times the national average. The story got front-page play, but no voice was raised to suggest...
U.S. SMALL BUSINESS LOANS will be available for first time since Feb. 1, when Small Business Administration ran short of funds for everything except most urgent disaster borrowing. Congress has allocated $45 million in stopgap funds until new fiscal year begins July 1, and SB A is ready to lend...