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Word: disasterous (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Sir: To advocate patience in the face of possible Communist domination is to advocate disaster.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Mar. 5, 1965 | 3/5/1965 | See Source »

Then the heavens burst as Howard Dale of Yale hit another jump shot and teammate Bob Trupin added two more points on a breakaway. Scenting disaster. Harvard coach Floyd Wilson switched into zone defense, but the damage was done. Harvard never was close to the lead again.

Author: By Lee H. Simowitz, (SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON) | Title: Basketball Team Loses to Yale, 68-51; Second Half Slump Proves Disastrous | 2/27/1965 | See Source »

Enterprising traders do a brisk business smuggling cigarettes into neighboring West African countries through Gambia. The country imports enough cigarettes to supply 3½ packs a day to each of its 316,000 men, women and children, but sporadic attempts to diversify the economy have ended in disaster. A mining...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Gambia: Newest, Smallest | 2/26/1965 | See Source »

En route to El Alamein, the Frenchmen sweat and struggle while the German sneers. When they are bogged down in the sand, he refuses to dig. When he begins to unbend and reaches under a seat to offer an injured man a first-aid kit, they clobber him unconscious. Shirtless...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Encore La Guerre | 2/26/1965 | See Source »

One question now being debated in the Administration is simply this: Should the U.S. declare war on North Vietnam? The CRIMSON pointed out in an editorial on Nov. 17, 1964, shortly after the disaster at Bienhoa airforce base, that General Khanh's proposals for attacking the North were gaining favor...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Get Out of Vietnam | 2/24/1965 | See Source »

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