Word: disasterous
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Johnson has adopted the very same surrender tactics that proved such a disaster for his predecessor last year. When Kennedy accepted the recommendations of the Clay Committee last spring and reduced his own earlier request by $400 million he was met not with Congressional approval but with an additional $1.5...
Such a compromise course might possibly stave off disaster while minimizing, for the Johnson Administration, the risk of a major war in an election year. But it all had a familiar ring, since McNamara had expressed many of the same hopes about the short-lived junta that preceded Khanh.
Disaster & Victory. She made roughly a dozen more movies in the years after the affair ended, including The Hasty Heart and The Breaking Point, before going back to Broadway in 1952 to do a revival of Lillian Hellman's The Children's Hour. She met Dahl at Lillian...
Disaster did not turn into defeat, and all she wants is as many children as she can possibly have-"I'd love to have lots more." Her fourth child is due in June.
Well, drama has been restored to Dunster House; but not altogether. For the first half-hour or so, the dull air of disaster hangs over the dinning-hall production of Sir George Etheredge's comedy "She Wou'd If She Cou'd" (circa 1688). Then the play--not quite picks...