Word: doom
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...told the others about the mysterious onset of evil in her neighborhood: "Hate came, I don't know from where." A 19-year-old from Kenya, Kim Muhota, reported that in the streets of Nairobi, children are known to wield discarded hypodermic needles (carrying God knows what viruses of doom) and threaten to jab passersby unless given money-the needles becoming grotesquely miniaturized moral inversions of the St. George lance...
...subway attack, could have prepared the Japanese for what police now believe. The man in the deep pink pajama suit seems to be the incarnation of that implausible villain in thriller novels: a megalomaniac who marshaled money, scientific expertise and loyal followers to act out his prophecies of doom and destruction...
...SIGNS OF IMPENDING DOOM HAD BEEN MULTIPLYING for at least a month. A headlong bug-out from the Central Highlands in March 1975 signaled that South Vietnam could no longer muster either the strength or the will to hold off the armies sweeping down from the communist North. The fall of Danang late in the month produced scenes of horror that appeared to foreshadow what might happen later in Saigon: panic-maddened South Vietnamese soldiers trampling women and children to get aboard the last American 727 to fly out; desperate soldiers clinging to the landing gear of that plane only...
...CULT OF DOOM...
Trouble is, the tests have been developed so rapidly that not even their creators understand exactly how much faith to put in them. Preliminary studies suggest, for example, that testing positive for the mutated BCRA1 gene does not necessarily doom a woman to breast cancer. At least 15% of the women who carry the gene will never develop the disease. Yet scientists still do not know how to tell which women fall into that category. Nor does testing negative mean that a woman can stop worrying. The BCRA1 gene appears to play a role in only...