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Word: disasterous (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Three days later, at his regular press conference, President Eisenhower said that the U.S. would be most cautious about doing anything that would create unrest and disaster, or failure or hysteria in a neighboring nation, say, in India. The Administration's effort would be to produce a friendship with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PAKISTAN: Leaping to Conclusions | 11/30/1953 | See Source »

On the first day, death had a fiesta. Soon after the roaring pack headed off over rolling junglelands from Tuxtla to Oaxaca (329.3 miles), disaster multiplied near Tehuantepec. A Ford overturned on a curve, and six spectators who had rushed to help its occupants were killed by a second Ford...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Roaring Road | 11/30/1953 | See Source »

After the long drought, the rain had a great impact on both man and the creatures of field and stream. During a storm in Oklahoma City, a flock of wild ducks mistook a wet runway at Municipal Airport for a body of water, and some of them cracked up on...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WEATHER: Rain | 11/9/1953 | See Source »

Last week, as the first real pea-souper of this year's smog season rolled over London, 6,000 doctor-members of the London Local Medical Committee, deeply distressed "at the lack of any effective response from official quarters to what can truthfully be described as a national disaster...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Smoggles | 11/9/1953 | See Source »

Many persons who eschew pepper skins were nonetheless struck by the plague. The meat filling must therefore bear the blame for the disaster.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Sunday Supper Stuffing Strikes Slumbering Students' Stomachs | 10/27/1953 | See Source »

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