Word: disasterous
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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The country was electrified, the revolution was saved. That was the pattern of the war-months of defeat, discouragement and disaster broken, when all seemed lost, by a daring stroke and a taste of triumph.
South Korea, likewise, is a war-wrecked shell: 75% of its mines and textile factories are out of action, ⅔ of its schools unusable. But out of disaster has grown a tough army of 16 divisions, and a sense of nationhood.
¶ Saved the U.S. and its allies from the disaster suffered when Czechoslovakia was allowed to fall to Hitler in 1938.
All 122 passengers, returning from five-day R and R (rest and recreation) leave in Japan, and the seven-man crew were dead. It was the worst airplane disaster in history.†
Distress & Disaster 26. G.O.P. Chairman Wesley Roberts thought it wise to resign after being charged with: