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Word: disasterous (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LBJ's Unstrategic Retreat | 3/25/1964 | See Source »

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.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: South Viet Nam: Chips on Khanh | 3/20/1964 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Actresses: Kiss Kiss | 3/20/1964 | See Source »

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.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Actresses: Kiss Kiss | 3/20/1964 | See Source »

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...

Author: By Max Byrd, | Title: She Wou'd If She Cou'd | 3/13/1964 | See Source »

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