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Word: disasterous (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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No sooner had Hurricane Beulah stormed ashore to ravage the Texas coast than she began to perish, thrashing violently apart in the lush, low valleys of the U.S.-Mexican border. But Beulah died hard. Last week, as her final throes dumped 30-in. cloudbursts on the area, the worst floods...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Disasters: The Wild One | 10/6/1967 | See Source »

But there was no consistency of image because in and out of the hostile big men cavorted the small Negroes--Versailles, Tovar and Carew--who formed the infield. Throwing balls behind their backs, striking poses for their own amusement, they seemed confident but fragile. Their light-heartedness was an affront...

Author: By John D. Reed, | Title: '67--The Year the Sox Won the Pennant | 10/3/1967 | See Source »

There was never any prospect that Johnson would accept such an offer, because of his great reliance on Rusk, because Rusk's resignation over his daughter's choice of a husband would be a major political disaster for the Administration, and because there is little likelihood that the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Races: A Marriage of Enlightenment | 9/29/1967 | See Source »

Mrs. Suzman entered Parliament in 1953 after winning an uncontested seat as a member of the United Party--the official opposition to the government's Nationalist Party. During the following six years, she became increasingly disenchanted with her party's "opposition" to the blossoming racist regime. After attempting reform from...

Author: By Stephen D. Lerner, | Title: Hold-Out Against Apartheid | 9/25/1967 | See Source »

Imagine the disaster, if you started seeing normal people in the Square. What a disgrace that the hippies who congregate in the new park outside of Holyoke Center aren't indigenous. Administrators are beginning to say that "it can't happen here"; that Harvard--with 331 years of tradition--won...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Make Harvard Safe For Hippies | 9/25/1967 | See Source »

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