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Word: disasterous (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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After all, the team did finish tied for sixth in the Ivy League with a 3-11 record. For the season its record was 10 won, 14 lost, though most of those wins came early in the season. The second half was a disaster.

Author: By Steven V. Roberts, | Title: THE SPORTING SCENE | 3/21/1962 | See Source »

To build up its credibility with its worldwide audience, the Voice reports the bad news along with the good, does its best to show how the U.S. is moving to improve itself. "Prejudice exists in the U.S.," one broadcast said candidly, then went on to outline the nation's...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Administration: Telling the World | 3/16/1962 | See Source »

The biggest chunk is an 8-ft. by 10-ft. section of the tail. Yet the skilled crash detectives of the U.S. Government's Civil Aeronautics Board can identify and check every tiny fragment. Out of the grim jigsaw puzzle, they will slowly and carefully extract the "probable cause...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: The Crash Detectives | 3/16/1962 | See Source »

Mice & Alcohol. Sometimes the investi gation takes years. The CAB has been working for 14 months on the mid-air collision between a United Air Lines DC-8 and a TWA Constellation, history's worst air disaster with 134 dead, has still not issued a report. At other times...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: The Crash Detectives | 3/16/1962 | See Source »

*The crash of a C124 Globemaster near Tokyo in 1953, killing 129 U.S. servicemen, was the world's worst single-plane disaster. The greatest catastrophe in aviation history occurred in 1960, when two airliners collided over New York, at a cost of 134 lives.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Disasters: Tragedy in Jamaica Bay | 3/9/1962 | See Source »

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