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Word: disasterous (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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> U.C.L.A.'s Gary Beban, 20, and Harold Busby, 19, provide the punch for a razzle-dazzle offense that has averaged 431.2 yds. and 37.6 points per game-both tops in the nation. The closest call experienced all year by the unbeaten, No. 3-ranked Bruins came at Rice, when...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: College Football: Babes in Wonderland | 10/28/1966 | See Source »

The peasant fled in terror to Kong Le, who sent Souvanna Phouma a telegram warning of impending disaster. Souvanna, who does not believe in dragons, shrugged it away. Even when the Mekong River started to rise, he attributed it simply to the annual monsoon rains. But the river kept on...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Laos: Kong Le & the Dragon | 10/21/1966 | See Source »

The river eventually went down without the benefit of atonement ceremonies, but Kong Le was so infuriated at the right-wing generals' interference that he refused to return the eggs. As a result, all of Laos was at the mercy of an infuriated dragon. As far as Souvanna Phouma...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Laos: Kong Le & the Dragon | 10/21/1966 | See Source »

Joan Rivers claims that she is now only a thin blonde disaster area, where once she was a fat blonde disaster area. In high school, she says, "I got to be chairman of the decorating committee for the prom. We decided to hold it at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Comedians: Hot Potato | 10/21/1966 | See Source »

Considering the 9-1 season that Notre Dame had in 1964, last year was practically a disaster. Quarterback John Huarte, the Heisman Trophy-winning passer, had graduated; so had All America End Jack Snow. The Fighting Irish had nothing left except a speedy halfback in Nick Eddy, a pile-driving...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Another One for the Irish | 10/7/1966 | See Source »

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