Word: disasterous
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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For 20 centuries and more, the legend of the lost Atlantis has had a powerful hold on the human imagination. In his dialogues, Plato described Atlantis as an island "confederation of marvelous power" located near the Straits of Gibraltar, somewhere in the Atlantic. In Timaeus, he declared that one day...
This, to my mind, is part of our basic inadequacy in meeting a long-term world theme, in which the prospect of spreading disorder goes along with increasing population, in the southern parts of the world in particular. I don't see anything to keep it from developing and crises...
Forbidden wine by the Prophet, Arabs often grow intoxicated on words. Florid exaggeration is a supreme Arab art. An Arab refugee does not tell the facts; he utters an epic of lament: "Words cannot describe the disaster we have suffered!" An Arab general does not say he will attack with...
"The negotiations were not a casual event. The whole thing had almost been written off as a disaster. Instead, it ended with what may be a formula for a kind of social reconciliation," he concluded.
While the Arabs tried to talk their way out of military disaster, the Israelis faced up to problems that mounted in the wake of their swiftest military triumph since Joshua brought down the walls of Jericho. Theirs was the pride of triumph, but theirs, too, were the enormous obligations involved...