Word: doom
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...Doom Prophecies. There were other events to support the alarms of the Ford Administration. Thailand suggested that it might order the U.S. to stop using that nation's airfields for munitions flights to Cambodia and to withdraw all military missions in Thailand within a year. In Western Europe, where U.S. strategic interests are far greater, the government of Portugal turned more leftward, possibly jeopardizing the future of U.S. bases in the Azores and Portugal's commitments to NATO...
...seems both faulty and dangerous when applied so obsessively to such peripheral situations as South Viet Nam and Cambodia. As U.S. policymakers argue for last-ditch aid to Cambodia, for instance, warning of worldwide repercussions if the demands are denied, they run the risk of creating selffulfilling prophecies of doom. Certainly Americans are disillusioned with their Viet Nam experience, and rightly so. They are less ready to support U.S. military aid or intervention elsewhere. But that does not mean that even the collapse of South Viet Nam would turn Americans so sour on foreign affairs that they would desert their...
...seemed, at 57, to be sitting on top of the world; he had a wife, a young family and a brightlooking future as a freelancer on a series of long-term projects. Yet he kept awakening (if he managed to sleep at all) with a sense of impending doom...
This year, however, the Harvard squamen are heavily favored to beat the Blue swimmers for the third year in a row in a 2 p.m. meet at the IAB a victory would wrap up the Crimson's third Eastern swim crown and doom Yale to its first losing season in history...
...this bickering between the White House and Congress and get something done!' " The American public did not appear to be panicking; people were sober and subdued but still largely positive as they appraised their own and their country's future. "The mood isn't gloom and doom," says Norman Mineta, a freshman Democrat from Southern California. "The question always asked is how much and how long it is going to take to turn this around...