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Word: disasterous (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Never long on inrushing angels, Broadway last week was vigorously fearful that it might soon be running out of fools as well. What alarmed producers, agents and theater owners was the New York Times, which had just published its annual article proclaiming the Broadway season a historic disaster. During the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Broadway: Dear Me, the Sky Is Falling | 6/7/1963 | See Source »

The result was disaster. Louis chose a daughter of the Prince de Condé, whose family ran to madness as some families run to fat. Condé had a habit of barking convulsively-though at court he usually managed to stuff his mouth with a silk drapery when he felt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Setting of a Royal Son | 6/7/1963 | See Source »

Called simply Marilyn, the new picture contains about 90 minutes' worth of segments from old Marilyn Monroe movies, adding some never-seen takes from her last, unfinished film. Fox has brought in Rock Hudson as narrator. The script is a little sticky now and again, but there is no...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hollywood: Marilyn, My Marilyn | 5/31/1963 | See Source »

"We are going on sea trials in the normal way." said Vice Admiral Hyman G. Rickover, 63. Then the so-called father of the atomic submarine boarded the Andrew Jackson, first nuclear-powered sub to be tested since the Thresher disaster, and disappeared into the briny off Mare Island, Calif...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: May 17, 1963 | 5/17/1963 | See Source »

The lights came up on the curtainless stage of East Berlin's Komische Oper last week, and there, pregnant with portents of disaster, hung a textured moon that looked like a fly's swollen eye. A shock. When John the Baptist was pulled barefoot from his cistern prison...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Opera: Last Week, East Berlin | 5/17/1963 | See Source »

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