Word: deathblow
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...time could have predicted the depth and duration of distrust that De Gaulle has stirred in Europe. Among the Six, who have been deadlocked on all major issues ever since, there is increasingly widespread apprehension that France's adamantly self-centered policies may have dealt the deathblow to the European Community that was envisaged by its founders. In Brussels last week, at an angry meeting of Common Market foreign ministers, West Germany's Foreign Minister Gerhard Schröder declared flatly that his government is tired of making economic concessions to suit the French, while Germany...
...education major" is doomed in California. In what Thomas W. Braden, president of the state board of education, calls a deathblow to "educationese," the state is drastically upgrading its teacher certification requirements. Ultimately, California will turn down all applicants whose sole or chief training is in the methodology of teaching. Instead, it will demand degrees in academic subjects, stressing substance over technique...
...corrupt state of Israel. Their cure was angry eloquence. "To us," Heschel writes, "a single act of injustice-cheating in business, exploitation of the poor-is slight; to the prophets, a disaster. To us injustice is injurious to the welfare of the people; to the prophets it is a deathblow to existence: to us, an episode; to them, a catastrophe, a threat to the world...
...Ghent, Belgian Painter Octave Landuyt recalled a bit of his childhood. "I lived with my parents in a flat over a local slaughterhouse," he said. "I used to play among dying animals and heaps of entrails, while blood ran in the gutters. I saw bulls stagger under the deathblow, heave up again and again. It all had a primeval greatness...
...average reader, the omission of "scammel" may not seem like a deathblow to the language. Yet, the Shakespearean scholar, and certainly many others with a far less professional interest in The Tempest, will find no sympathy for an "unabridged" dictionary that fails to recognize words from the mouth of so marvelous a speaker as Caliban...