Word: armageddon
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...military service; two were executed. Today, at least 50 Witnesses are in prison for refusing to bear arms. Although not pacifists, the Witnesses refuse to take part in man-made wars because, as "God's ambassadors," they feel obliged to save their strength for the coming battle of Armageddon that will end world history. Greece has time and again refused the Witnesses official permits to build their "kingdom halls," and three years ago the government denied them permission to hold an international rally in Athens...
...AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF? Two faculty couples turn an after-hours party into a marital Armageddon, with the same corrosive language used in Edward Albee's Broadway hit. As hosts, Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor make a sizzling night...
Albee, America's current master of theatrical invective, uses it here for potshots and heavy artillery in a marital Armageddon. His chief combatants are a pair of matched failures: George is an ineffectual, hagridden history professor; his wife Martha is the university president's daughter-a bitchy, aging man-eater with a father fixation and a casual lust for younger chaps. The entertainment takes shape very late one evening when a new young faculty couple stops by for a nightcap. "Give your coats and stuff to sourpuss," snarls Martha, and the foursome is off on an orgy...
Dean Martin can sure liven up a picture. In Kiss Me, Stupid--Billy Wilder's long awaited Armageddon--a cop walked up to Martin, who said, "Haven't you found that Sinatra...
...elephant grass, Hanoi hardly had reason to gloat. Some 350 of their crack troops, many of whom had come over the border into South Viet Nam within the last month, lay dead in la Drang valley, bringing to well over 1,000 their losses in the week's Armageddon with the 1st Air Cavalry...