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Word: disasterous (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Bristling Camp. Some Democratic officials sensed disaster. First an electrical workers' strike ruined prospects for adequate television coverage of the streets, which Daley may not have wanted anyway. The strike, called 14 weeks before the convention, also prevented the installation of telephones and seriously impeded the candidates' operations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: DEMENTIA IN THE SECOND CITY | 9/6/1968 | See Source »

At any rate, the Soviets pounced, and now must try to translate their military takeover of Czechoslovakia into a realization of the political ends that inspired it. It will not be easy. At best, the invasion was too clumsy and too late to rescue a vacillating policy. At worst, it...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: WHY DID THEY DO IT? | 8/30/1968 | See Source »

(10 of 10) Africa one more step in the direction that most African scholars are convinced would lead to disaster. Far from splintering into countless anthill economies, they argue, Africa's nations should be consolidating their resources and widening their markets. Three nations in East Africa have moved in this...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: NIGERIA'S CIVIL WAR: HATE, HUNGER AND THE WILL TO SURVIVE | 8/23/1968 | See Source »

At a time when most U.S. rock jockeys are screaming egomaniacs, Drake advises his stations to end the cult of nonstop talkers. Even Murray the K, the nation's best known jock, was forced out shortly after Drake's firm moved in at WOR-FM in Manhattan. Murray...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Programming: The Executioner | 8/23/1968 | See Source »

To perfect the tomato that makes the soup that Campbell sells by the millions of cans, botanists have been working for years on different strains of Lycopersicon esculentum. Last week the soup-tomato crop was ripening right on time, as the scientists intended, but for once its punctuality was a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Food: Sad Tomatoes | 8/23/1968 | See Source »

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