Word: armageddons
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...economic policy, White House organization, treatment of the press and the leadership vacuum. At one dinner, Defense Secretary Melvin Laird, a longstanding Nixon loyalist, concluded that the Cambodia invasion should have been quietly announced in Saigon as an expanded "raid" rather than trumpeted as something like Armageddon by Nixon on national television. At another party, Labor Secretary George Shultz argued intently that the time has come to put a muzzle on Vice President Agnew...
Gardner takes a precautionary peep or two at Armageddon, and he says: "We are in trouble as a species." As one responsible man of good will to another, he drops warnings: "This free society begins with us. It mustn't end with us." But his emphasis lies with the affirmative, albeit a beleaguered affirmative: "We still have a choice...
When John Dille, head of the National Newspaper Syndicate, decided to put out a science-fiction comicstrip, he did some reading in sci-fi magazines-then just entering their fabled Golden Age-and found two stories he liked; "Armageddon 2419 A. D." and "The Warlords of Han." both by Phil Nowlan. He fast-talked Nowlan into writing the new strip, got him together with an artist named Dick Calkins, and let him go. The strip that resulted ran for almost forty years in newspapers all over the world...
...almost unique in the world, are incapable of imagining a different form of government for the nation. As William Pfaff observes, "The Constitution is all." Thus to assault America, to call for revolutionary change, as some black and white radicals do, is a profoundly spiritual offense, an invitation to Armageddon. Most Middle Americans, and most radicals, share one blind spot: they tend to forget that both the form and content of the U.S. Government have undergone enormous changes over the years, and that the Constitution will tolerate much more change without having the entire system collapse...