Word: armageddon
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...nation prepared for Armageddon. Carter himself placed the call to Brezhnev. "How about a game of baseball?" he asked...
...current period of crisis could still prove to be Iran's Armageddon. But all last week there were encouraging signs that the Shah's desperate attempt to keep the situation under control might succeed. Manning a bank of telephones at Tehran's well-guarded Niavaran Palace, he ordered army commanders to keep down the civilian death toll, something they have not always tried to do in the past. He announced the release of 122 political prisoners, including Karim Sanjabi, leader of the opposition National Front, who had been arrested a month earlier after visiting Khomeini in France...
...amplitude, the Tolkien story embraces both pipe and slippers and Armageddon. Hence the saga's surge in popularity during the 1960s, when so many people craved the conviction that the Apocalypse rested in their hands. The hobbit Frodo Baggins is an ordinary creature with hairy toes suddenly charged with a task that will decide the battle between good and evil in his world. This elemental quest is what the whole fantasy boils down to and percolates up from. Bakshi tries to strike the same balance between the personal and universal, but in a fraction of the time at Tolkien...
...visions of an imminent energy Armageddon that seemed so plausible right after the 1973 Arab oil embargo have gradually faded, but the serious questions remain: How much oil does the world have left? When will...
...course, somewhere in the collective unconscious (heavy on the un) lurks the specter of Armageddon, but even that fear has been defused, what with these new-fangled, clean, tactical weapons. And like many other vaguely leftist movements without mass appeal, the anti-nuclear juggernaut has generated more scorn than support...