Word: disasterous
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Meyer proposed three possible sources of income which, if pursued, might extricate Israel from the economic disaster which seemed probable.
Mutiny on the Bounty. MGM's $18.5 million reconstruction of The Bounty goes bounding along at a great rate for two hours, but all at once the story springs a leak and sinks beneath contempt. Marlon Brando is a sight too cute as Fletcher Christian, but even in disaster...
From the beginning, Stevenson was refused the policymaking role he had expected; sometimes he was not even informed of major Administration plans. The great humiliation came during the Bay of Pigs disaster. At the U.N., two days before the invasion, Stevenson, unaware of what was going on, waved photos of...
First warning was the telltale eye-stinging vapor that old Londoners know so well. Out went the Red Alert to 200 hospitals, which went on a disaster standby in readiness for elderly patients, who are most susceptible to smog-induced pneumonia and bronchitis (or the "English disease," as it has...
In April last year, after the invasion of Cuba met disaster in the Bay of Pigs, the President used the occasion to propose a voluntary press censorship in the interests of national security (TIME, May 5, 1961). His appeal was not only unnecessary but ill-timed and illadvised. The U.S...