Word: deathblows
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Once upon a time, high-quality watches ticked, had mechanical movements (hand- wound or self-winding) and almost always came from Switzerland. But that was before the onslaught of Japanese quartz watches dealt a near deathblow to the Swiss industry. Now Swiss watchmakers, who survived by converting to quartz technology, plan to turn back the clock...
...black workers in South Africa who will deal the deathblow to apartheid, but as fellow members of the Southern Africa Solidarity Committee noted earlier this year, Damon Silvers of the DSA cannot bring himself to support the heroic struggle of the African National Congress (ANC) and instead focuses on the U.S. and South African white ruling class as the vehicle for change. The Spartacus Youth League does not share the illusion that if Harvard divests from companies doing business in South Africa, the rest of the world will follow suit, causing as economic collapse and the subsequent reform of apartheid...
...play, though plagued with various and sundry other difficulties--poor lighting and makeup, intrusive set design, tacky costuming--fails primarily in this interpretive aspect. The Leverett House production, furthermore, provides its own unsolicited deathblow -- in setting the already outdated play in present-day upstate New York. The set, dialogue and actors prove inadequate with respect to this ambitious innovation, and are eventually unable to carry the additional burden...
...that our precious blood may not be shed In vain; then even the monsters we defy Shall be constrained to honor us though dead! O kinsmen! we must meet the common foe! Though far outnumbered let us show us brave, And for their thousand blows deal one deathblow! What though before us lies the open grave? Like men we'll face the murderous, cowardly pack, Pressed to the wall, dying, but fighting back...
...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...