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Word: disasterous (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Singer Edith Piaf's tour of the French provinces was a disaster from the start. In Maubeuge. she lost her way among the lyrics of her songs and collapsed sobbing against the piano. At Le Mans, rumors spread that she had to be taken home in an ambulance. By...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HEADLINERS: Love, Always Love | 12/28/1959 | See Source »

Vandiver's actions should speak softer than his words. He can close Atlanta's schools for breaking the state segregation law, but Atlantans furnish 30% of the state's entire tax revenue, and they would scarcely relish paying to educate other Georgia children while their own are...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Reality in Atlanta | 12/14/1959 | See Source »

Once the Allies secured the Normandy landings, the Americans again got in the way. Why were they always complaining about cautious, tidy Montgomery when he was really taking the brunt of the battle? (The fact is that many military men, including Germans, feel that Monty could have taken his major...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Who Won the War? I Did | 12/7/1959 | See Source »

Soviet ambassadors, as The Ugly American pointed out, are career officials, carefully and intensively trained in the language, history and sociology of the nations to which they are assigned. By contrast, the United States has traditionally used such irrelevant standards as the size of campaign contributions and long-time political...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Diplomatic Dilettantism | 11/30/1959 | See Source »

No Tolerance. "This is a disaster," cried George Olsson, president of Ocean Spray Cranberries, Inc., a cooperative for 1,079 growers who produce 75% of the nation's 62,000-ton cranberry production. Cranberrymen, he said, have used aminotriazole with care-even before the Agriculture Department set a rule...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BUREAUCRACY: The Cranberry Boggle | 11/23/1959 | See Source »

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