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Word: disasterous (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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You cherish those predictions that turn out right, even if they are predictions of disaster.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Opinion: The Great Mogul | 2/16/1968 | See Source »

As a popular economist and polished diplomat, a veteran lecturer and fledgling novelist, a former presidential adviser and current cynosure of the Eastern intellectual set, John Kenneth Galbraith has long been a purveyor of predictions. For two decades they have come tumbling from his typewriter and tongue in prodigious quantities...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Opinion: The Great Mogul | 2/16/1968 | See Source »

The hero was a bent-nosed ex-pug who seemed too ugly even for character parts. His co-star was a round-eyed windup doll from Iowa whose debut had been a disaster. The director, an impoverished movie critic, made up the script as he went along, and shot much...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Directors: Infuriating Magician | 2/16/1968 | See Source »

John Hersey's Hiroshima, published in 1946, consisted of 35,000 simple, meticulously arranged and muted words that told the story of six people who, a year earlier, had survived the biggest unnatural disaster in history. In that account, eyes ran from sockets, flesh bubbled from bone, a city...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Psychological Ground Zero | 2/16/1968 | See Source »

Simpler & Livelier. "Most living rooms are a total disaster because they are not used-they were meant to be looked at," says San Francisco Decorator Michael Taylor. Taylor spent a year transforming San Francisco Socialite Mrs. Davies Lewis' drawing room from a masculine retreat with wood-paneled walls and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Home: Room for Every Taste | 2/9/1968 | See Source »

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