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Word: disasterous (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Belgians agreed that the time had come for a change-almost any change. The empire was gone, the nation still bitterly divided by the fratricidal year-end strike set off by the austerity measures designed to make up for the $215 million a year that Belgium had been accustomed to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Belgium: Nowhere but Up | 3/3/1961 | See Source »

Without Johnson the consistently weak foil team seems destined for another shutout. The foilmen lost every bout to end the Penn disaster Saturday.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fencers to Challenge Trinity in Meet Today | 3/1/1961 | See Source »

Harvard's fencing team suffered an astounding 23-4 loss at the hands of Pennsylvania Saturday. The usually strong sabre squad won only three of nine bouts, two of them by All-Ivy candidate John Piel. The epee squad took but a single match and the foil team ended the...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Matmen Beat Brown; Penn Downs Fencers | 2/27/1961 | See Source »

¶ Scooting down Lake Placid's icy, one-mile Olympic run at disaster-begging speed, Italy's Eugenio Monti piloted his bobsled to its fifth straight world two-man title, flashed past the finish line so fast on his last effort (a world-record 1 min. 9.22 sec...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Scoreboard: Feb. 24, 1961 | 2/24/1961 | See Source »

We have spoken much in these pages about personalities. That there was no Bismarck among them is clear. It would be too much to expect a Bismarck in every generation.... It was taken for granted that the world was marked out by Providence for exploitation by the European white man...

Author: By Robert W. Gordon, | Title: The Useless Art: A Refined Sampling | 2/24/1961 | See Source »

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