Word: doomful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...liberate mankind from poverty by political means.. No revolution has ever solved the 'social problem'... Although the whole record of past revolutions demonstrates beyond doubt that every attempt to solve the social problem with political means leads to terror, and it is terror which sends revolutions to their doom, it can hardly be denied that to avoid this fatal mistake is almost impossible under conditions of mass poverty...
...through Kennedy's omnibus education measure. As the President knows, this is the equivalent of pushing a dead horse. Even if the Administration could succeed in getting its bill to the floor of the House, opposition from Roman Catholics to the provision for aid to secondary schools would doom it once more...
...hearings wore on, the attorneys for Sacco and Vanzetti gradually became convinced that the committee was irrevocably prejudiced against them. "The doom of our clients seemed as inevitable as that of Socrates, and we were unwilling to continue in the face of unfair treatment, one defense attorney said...
Landmarks are toppling like dominoes, and the latest to get a foretaste of doom is Montmartre's Moulin Rouge, soon to make way for a supermarket unless sentimental Parisians can block its sale. Built in 1889 as a dance hall for Paris' deliciously depraved demimonde, it subsequently became a cabaret, vaudeville house, cinema, and a focal point for "generations" of wide-eyed tourists. Its raffish denizens were immortalized by Henri Toulouse-Lautrec, the unhappy dwarf who turned poster drawing into a fine...
...Meaning of Communism argues that Communism, though "implacably dedicated to destroying freedom," is undergoing such "evolutionary changes'' that its dogmas "may in time become something different in practice." In a concise analysis, the book traces the process right back to Marx, whose prophecies of capitalism's doom seemed brilliantly plausible, but "were proved wrong by capitalism's ability to purge its worst evils without revolution...