Word: disasterous
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Opposition. Though Ne Win is conceded to be honest and hardworking, easygoing Burmese long for the good old good-for-nothing government of U Nu, whose photo is still hawked on the streets and outsells that of Ne Win by a wide margin. One opposition leader, U Ba Swe, called...
To Rocky, vacationing most of last week at his Seal Harbor, Me., estate, such statistics could only portend disaster. There is, of course, no doubt that he means to seek the G.O.P. presidential nomination next year. But he had meant to play things fairly cautiously. And now, in the face...
"If Verdun is taken, what a disaster!" warned France's President Raymond Poincaré. "If it is saved, how can we ever forget the price?" In the crudest ten months of World War I, Verdun was saved. But the price was so disastrous - half a million French and German...
It is a nice enough coastal town, but, as regards Shakespeare, Connecticut's Stratford is spotty. In the nine years since its founding, Stratford's Festival Theater has followed a practice of putting big names in mediocre productions. Katharine Hepburn in 1960 did nothing to salvage a ragged...
All this is mere jam to the real bread of Lloyd's, which issues one-third of all British insurance (except long-term life) and more than one-half of the world's maritime insurance. It sells some 2,000,000 policies a year in 150 countries and...