Word: disasterous
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Bevan did not promise, however, to told his tongue. Almost alone in the Commons he would heckle when the Churchillian grand strategy failed. "Merchant of discourtesy," snapped Churchill across the floor of the House. "Better than being a wholesaler of disaster," retorted Nye.
Last weekend's presentation of this play at the Experimental Theatre, therefore, was in stark contrast to a more amiable view of the battle of the sexes being portrayed on the Main Stage. Shaw could smile resignedly at the tenacity with which woman fulfilled her duty to the Life Force...
Three French tourists had just driven into a camping site in a Skoplje park. As they got out of their car they saw the surrounding houses crumble. Bricks shot through the air as if fired from cannon-one struck a running man in the head and killed him. Dazed survivors...
Even before the thalidomide disaster, some doctors had concluded that it was time to purge the nation's medicine chests of prescription drugs lurking dangerously in bottles unlabeled except for the patient's name and a sequential number slapped on by the druggist. A few physicians got the...
The treaty is also valuable because it deals with a threat to individuals rather than masses of peoples. The President was powerfully persuasive in noting that while the statistical effects of testing are negligible, lukemia or genetic mutation cannot fail to be significant to the victim. Further, the treaty has...