Search Details

Word: disasterously (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

Split-Second Timing. Hattori, founded in 1881 by a clock salesman of that name, started out as a shoestring importer of foreign timepieces, later pioneered Japan's own watch industry. Destroyed by a 1923 earthquake, Hattori rebuilt, only to be leveled again by U.S. bombers. That disaster proved to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Japan: Clocker of the Games | 10/16/1964 | See Source »

But one loss does not a disaster make. The Phillies obliged by beating second-place Cincinnati 4-3 - and now the Cards only had to take the next two from the Mets. Out at the McDonnell Aircraft plant in St. Louis, scientists fed season records into an IBM 7094 computer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Baseball: The Pennant Nobody Wanted | 10/9/1964 | See Source »

Crossing the "Fire Break." The Administration's fear of firing any sort of nuclear weapon is based largely on the so-called "fire break" theory. That theory holds that the single step from use of the largest gunpowder weapon to use of the smallest tactical nuclear weapon would mean...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: The Fear & the Facts | 9/25/1964 | See Source »

But the absence of a plot is no disaster. Raymonda becomes a series of exquisitely varied, buoyantly assertive dances that cascade at staccato pace across the stage, and after all it is the dancing that counts.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ballet: Dancing That Counts | 9/25/1964 | See Source »

Armaments are once again a big and growing business in Western Europe. The defense budgets of the major NATO powers have increased by about 45% since 1959, but few nations maintain defense establishments large enough to match their ability to produce arms. Result: A fiercely competitive battle for contracts, and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Western Europe: Clash of Arms | 9/25/1964 | See Source »

Previous | 114 | 115 | 116 | 117 | 118 | 119 | 120 | 121 | 122 | 123 | 124 | 125 | 126 | 127 | 128 | 129 | 130 | 131 | 132 | 133 | 134 | Next