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Word: disasterous (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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RENO: This is how bad the flooding is in Reno, Nevada: even gambling has come to a halt. Some of the worst flooding in decades continues to plague five western states, forcing tens of thousands of people to flee their homes, closing major highways, and closing, for the first time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Floods Continue to Plague West | 1/3/1997 | See Source »

These Martians are imagined as a civilization of pre-moral, technologically advanced three-year-olds, the kind of mean widdle kids who cheerfully tell you that they come in peace just before they zap you with their ray guns. The earthlings, from the family in the White House to the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A RICH FILM FEAST | 12/30/1996 | See Source »

7 Flirting with Disaster Plunging into it, more like. Mel Coplin (Ben Stiller) assumes that his birth parents are alive, well and no nutsier than his adoptive ones. The conventional wisdom of mental health dictates that he seek them out. The unconventional sensibility of writer-director David O. Russell dictates...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: THE BEST CINEMA OF 1996 | 12/23/1996 | See Source »

gemors: a mess, muddle or state of confusion; a disaster

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Notebook: Dec. 16, 1996 | 12/16/1996 | See Source »

Friday nights always seemed to always have some such impending disaster, but somehow things got done.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Not-So-Desultory Philippic | 12/14/1996 | See Source »

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