Word: disasterous
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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In 1798, the gloomy Rev. Thomas Robert Malthus made his famed pronouncement that human populations, unless checked by enemies or disasters, tend to increase until finally checked by hunger. Malthus foresaw only catastrophe ahead. In fact he predicted that within 50 years Britain would be in disaster because of overpopulation...
A good deal of the trouble in The Cobweb is readymade, since the setting is a Midwest psychiatric sanitarium called the Castle House Clinic for Nervous Disorders. But Head Psychoanalyst Stewart McIver, his wife and his staff spin some extra strands of personal disaster that make the patients seem sane...
In October 1950, the Communists tore up a line of French forts along the China border, killed or captured 2,300 out of 3,000 French Union troops near Caobang, and shoved the remnants back to Hanoi. In disaster, the proud French back home rallied strong. France' sent in...
Agriculture does not obey traditional laws of supply and demand. Drouth can suddenly shut the valve in the supply pipe; military crises and fluctuating foreign markets unsettle the demand. Because framers may be caught in a severe depression while the rest of the economy prospers, Democrats and Republicans alike have...
This may be good advice in terms of partisan politics, but for Eisenhower's program it could mean disaster. For it appears certain that if the elections and particularly the GOP primaries are dominated by the question of Communism, then the people who will be returned to the Senate and...