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Word: disasterously (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Some grim spots nonetheless mar the glowing predictions. The nation's harvest of oats will plummet 24% below last year's, to 499 million bu.-the lowest level in 95 years-and the output of barley will drop 19%, to 311 million bu. Part of the reason is...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AGRICULTURE: Of Food and Water | 7/26/1976 | See Source »

He will need far greater capacity if Arab governments buy his 300-sq.-ft. tentlike shelters of stressed cotton fabric sprayed with plastic foam to make it rigid. "If I can develop and produce it for what I say I can," says Moss, "we are talking about hundreds of thousands...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Modern Living: Moss the Tentmaker | 7/26/1976 | See Source »

Since the raid, diplomats in Kampala say, the mercurial Ugandan leader has been furiously searching for scapegoats for the Entebbe disaster. One possible victim of Amin's fury may have been the lone hostage the Israeli commandos left behind: Dora Bloch, 74, who at the time of the rescue...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TERRORISTS: After Entebbe: Showdown in New York | 7/19/1976 | See Source »

The temperatures that produced such a disaster were merely in the mid-90s. But average June and July temperatures in Western Europe are usually much lower, and air-conditioning-an innovation that some Americans rank with the discovery of the Salk vaccine -is relatively unknown.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World: A Case of Continental Heat Prostration | 7/19/1976 | See Source »

Before he could win his clients all that money he would have to overcome several barriers, not the least of which was the high-priced and high-powered legal talent of the Pittston Company's resources. Few people, attorneys or laymen, write lucidly about the intricacies of the law, but...

Author: By Joseph Dalton, | Title: Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Coal | 7/16/1976 | See Source »

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