Word: disasterous
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Burke said he was "really burned up" by the "open defiance of the law" shown by certain students during the atomic disaster test from 9:05 to 9:15 a.m. Saturday.
From a British naval helicopter an airman was lowered into the water to pick up what looked like a body. "Got it," he said, but all he had was a pair of trousers shorn off at the knees. A motorboat crew threw a grappling hook at what looked like another...
In its bigger and faster Comet IIs (due to be put into service later this year), De Havilland intends to install more safety devices. Its long-term hopes are still centered on the Comet III, which is on order for Pan American, but which will almost certainly be redesigned in...
As the press got its first look at the movie film of the first hydrogen bomb blast at Eniwetok in 1952 (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS), it also got a blunt warning. The 175 Washington newsmen who gathered in the Department of the Interior's auditorium were told that the H...
Why do the French fight? Because they are doing a job for the free world? Perhaps-but this is not the dominant factor. Duty? For the mercenaries and for those who carry on without expectation of victory, yes. But the answer one hears most is pride. It hardly seems enough...