Word: doom
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...shadow of doom never fell on Billy Cleary's speed skaters, and after the final buzzer sounded Saturday night in Watson Rink Harvard had outscored its two upstate New York opponents 18-6 in two victories to boost the team's record to 10-0 in the Eastern league. The Crimson squad outfought Cornell, 4-2, Friday night and routed Colgate...
...addition to all the obvious trouble spots, others could emerge as unexpectedly as Cyprus did last summer. Yet not all is doom for 1975. Many of the flash points of the Cold War are now relatively calm, such as Berlin and the heavily guarded border area in Central Europe separating East and West. The two Koreas, though still hostile, are experiencing a slight thaw in relations. More important-and encouraging: no military units of the great powers are warring against any country...
...ward since the beginning of his illness. To his friends there-an old woman with no larynx, a boy with no jaw, a man whose flesh had wasted away, and one or two people his own age-he became an un-defeatable rallying point. He mocked doom by plotting "jail breaks" and rebellion against the staff. He laughed at cancer by drawing and circulating absurd cartoons. Once, he and another man smuggled themselves out of the hospital in a laundry cart-and then of course returned to Ewing Eight. He fell in love with a young nurse, and during...
Early Wounds. On the other hand, if he had been less wounded himself before he found his true comic voice, if he had not found doom so attractive, he could have survived assaults from the law at its lowest, least sensitive levels...
...guitar lessons with Jose Feliciano ($14,500), an ivory day with Peter Duchin at the piano ($3,750), drumming with Buddy Rich ($5,250) and two "Lessons in Conversation" with Truman Capote, lisped at $3,000. There is also a one-day grounding in economics with doom-crying Economic Forecaster Eliot Janeway, whose price ($2,875) would suggest emigration rather than investment...