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Word: disasterously (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Tokyo is no phantasm. The world's second most populous city is an all too real concentration of 11.5 million jam-packed people. Many of them nonetheless feared last week that Tokyo might soon become a momentary smoke, with millions dead among unparalleled destruction. One reason for their fears...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: Tremors and Tembatsu | 9/3/1973 | See Source »

Certainly, much of Wyeth's success flows from nostalgia. Many people would like to project themselves at first hand, exchanging-for half an hour -their self-cleaning ovens for the black, bulbous wood stove that squats in the Ericksons' kitchen, and their disaster-crammed TV screens for the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Fact as Poetry | 9/3/1973 | See Source »

A FRIEND of mine in Adams House told me about a recurring dream she has. The House seems to become the last refuge of a disaster wrecked earth. It quickly fills up with refugees from distant places--like Dunster House. Cots appear in the dining room, strange faces lean against...

Author: By Lewis Clayton, | Title: Construction: | 9/1/1973 | See Source »

BATTLE FOR THE PLANET OF THE APES once again pits simians against mankind in the fifth installment of a series that with any luck will not include a sixth. The humans are the scarred survivors of nuclear disaster, led by Severn Darden as the kind of consciously hammy villain that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Quick Cuts | 8/20/1973 | See Source »

The letter may have been sensible from the standpoint of an executive who must get along with the Arabs, but as could easily have been predicted, it was a public-relations disaster. Californians promptly began a grass-roots boycott of Standard's Chevron gas stations. A group of 30...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOYCOTTS: Falling off the Tightrope | 8/20/1973 | See Source »

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