Word: disasterous
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Sir: The statement of Premier Menderes of Turkey is absolutely right in that "British retreat from Cyprus would cause international disaster." The withdrawal of Britain from the island will create an immediate disaster which is what the Soviet wants.
The swift, accurate camera has superceded such labored reconstructions, as photographs of the Andrea Doria disaster show.
DAMAGE. Flashed to the third-floor city room, the SOS was the first any Manhattan newspaper knew of the collision between the Italian liner Andrea Doria and the Swedish American Line's Stockholm (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS). The Times stopped its presses, hustled to cover the story. In the next...
By 2:30 a.m., with 1,240 words on the disaster already in the paper, the Times really started moving. By 7:30 a.m., rolling out its fifth and final edition of the day, the Times had 5,000 words on it; six stories, besides a sharp, authoritative lead, were...
To weathermen, radar has been the biggest boon their science has known since the barometer. Without radar, weather forecasters had to depend on reports from observation stations, which are always too few, and often slow to arrive. With radar, they can actually watch the approach of storm clouds. Many a...