Word: disasterous
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Friendship in Jeopardy. British retreat from Cyprus, said Menderes, would mean "an international disaster," and would upset the whole "delicate balance" of the 1923 Lausanne Treaty, under which-after much bloody fighting between Greek and Turk-Turkey formally ceded Cyprus to Britain and ceded many of the offshore islands and...
Clearly, the two planes had struck at 21,000 ft. over the Painted Desert, the faster overtaking the slower. The dead, scattered out over 2,000 yards of arid land, had burned in the fires of the crash. Of 128 men, women and children aboard the two aircraft, none had...
Antonia Fleming is beautiful; her husband Conrad is brilliant, but as a schoolmaster once wrote on his report, "bloody-minded." Antonia holds a dinner party to celebrate the engagement of her dim son, Julian, to an even dimmer girl. Her daughter Deirdre, pregnant by one man, is about to marry...
MOST experts agree that all-out atomic war might end civilization. But what about the long-range effects of atomic-age peace? Last year the National Academy of Sciences, financed by the Rockefeller Foundation, undertook to find out. Last week its committees of eminent scientists made their report on what...
Large atomic power plants will contain so much radioactive material that a blow-up would be a major disaster, causing serious damage over thousands of square miles. By 2000, figured the committee, the earth's reactors will contain so much strontium 90 (a cancer-causing radioisotope which deposits in...