Word: disasterous
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Obviously, it was still too early to assess the effect of the President's inevitable isolation. Yet there was evidence that as he came to grips with Berlin, he was recovering the confidence that had been temporarily shattered by the Cuban disaster.
Hostility & Achievement. Author White strives for objectivity, but there is no question whose campaign button adorned his lapel. The TV debates were a "disaster" for Nixon. Kennedy's campaign was "brilliant." His coverage of Kennedy is more complete, more successful than his picture of Nixon. Nor was it entirely...
Addressing Filipino lawmakers later in the week, MacArthur indicated that he was still of the same mind. The failure of the United Nations forces to win the Korean war was "a major disaster for the free world," he said. "With victory within our grasp and without the use of the...
In Maine, campers poured into Acadia National Park on Mount Desert Island and swept over 31,000 acres of mountain, fresh-water pond, deep woods and seashore. At Rangeley Lake in the same state, the campers took nature walks between classes at the camping school, where they learned how to...
The Ford Foundation gave $1,330,000 toward meeting a growing public menace that former Harvard President James B. Conant recently called "social dynamite": the high school "drop-outs," who this year numbered 900,000, during the next decade may total 7,500,000. Out of school and out of...