Word: disasterous
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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The Peking leaders of today remind one of the leaders of the Taiping rebellion of the 1850's who picked up Christianity as a foreign ideology, rebuilt it to suit their needs, and took over half the country. The Taipings came from the back country, not from the foreign trade...
And that was not all of it: two Japanese crewmen died when their S-58 helicopter toppled into Tokyo Bay while on a search for bodies from last month's worst single-plane disaster in history, the crash of the All Nippon Airways' 727 that killed 133 persons...
BOAC's flight 911 had taken off in perfect weather twelve minutes before the disaster from Tokyo International and had climbed to 6,000 feet. The passengers were probably peering out the starboard windows for a glimpse of the mountain. Among them were 75 dealers and executives with their...
In the wake of the latest round of coups, Lord Caradon worried aloud that "people are going to say: 'These miserable little places should never have been allowed to exist.' They are going to reject these nations with disgust. That would be a bloody disaster." Nations have to...
Harris, 61, got into the business by chance. Curious in 1950 about the valu able samples a friend received through the mail, Harris wrote to 100 companies for free samples. He got back 82, including a twelve-can carton of tooth powder and a soda-fountain dispenser of headache powder...