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Word: disasterous (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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A Child Is Waiting. What is it like to be a mental defective? What is being done to help such people? This film makes a calm inspection of this major disaster area (there are 5,700,000 defectives in the U.S.) and makes some surprising recommendations. Burt Lancaster, Judy Garland...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Mar. 1, 1963 | 3/1/1963 | See Source »

The occasion is not an atomic disaster, but the breakdown of the family television set in prime time. The pitiful line about someone being dead was actually spoken to an interviewer on television viewing habits, along with such others as, "I nearly lost my mind. The days were so long...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: The Mass Tasteland | 3/1/1963 | See Source »

India, however, still adheres to the ancient beliefs. A year ago its population braced itself for the destruction of the world which was predicted from the conjunction of eight celestial bodies. Fortunately, the accurate prediction of the event gave the people a chance to avert disaster: "The world was not...

Author: By Peter Cummings, | Title: David E. Pingree | 2/23/1963 | See Source »

Before last week's disaster, the varsity had been the best defensive team in the league, holding their opponents to an average of 58 points per game. To bolster his faltering defense, coach Floyd Wilson switched to an unprecedented man-to-man in the second half of the Penn game...

Author: By Richard Cotton, | Title: Basketball Team to Meet Penn, Tigers This Weekend | 2/21/1963 | See Source »

Samuel Beer, professor of Government, said he has "no great enthusiasm for the choice," but he added that he thought it "no greater disaster than any of the alternatives."

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Rodman Calls Wilson Opportunist, But Says He Will Unify Labor | 2/16/1963 | See Source »

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