Word: doomful
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Ever since the time of Malthus (1766-1834), prophets of doom have warned that if the human race does not stop reproducing so fast it will eventually outbreed its available food supply. But whenever the pessimists of the plundered-planet school have set a date for this unhappy event, they were proved to be wrong. In advanced countries the technology of food production has kept well ahead of population growth (TIME, Nov. 8, 1948). The U.S., with its burdensome crop surplus, is farther from starvation than ever before, and other countries are in the same condition. Only technologically backward countries...
Whatever their differences in outlook, the nations of the center cling to three beliefs: 1) they see the U.N. as the bulwark of their independence, 2) they fear nuclear doom from the angry opposition of East and West, 3) they do not want to be pushed around by the great powers. The Big Five of neutralism-Tito of Yugoslavia, Nehru of India, Nkrumah of Ghana, Nasser of Egypt, Sukarno of Indonesia -are magnetic, colorful and messianic personalities, but too much so. The most effective work has often been done by second-echelon diplomats: men like Burma's U Thant...
Nixon: First let me state here and now that I do not believe we are going to have a recession. Senator Kennedy has expressed the opinion that the U.S. economy is weak. He prophesics Depression, bread lines, soup kitchens, hungry, crying children, weeping mothers, misery, dejection, doom, and despair...
From Bluff to Doom. Author Shirer effectively underlines the incredible myopia of France and England in letting Hitler conthem into accepting one conquest after another until even the Chamberlains in both countries could swallow no more. Shirer shows how the German generals feared that every aggressive move of the Fiihrer's would lead them into a war for which they were not ready-only to realize eventually that the "warlord's" successful bluff made their caution seem ridiculous. The big-lie technique, the phony "threats" to Germany from future victims (Austria, Czechoslovakia. Poland) are documented to the hilt...
...hurt him more in the war's later stages than did his enemies in the field. His attack on Russia, his failure to follow through in North Africa, his preference of annihilation to retreat, and finally his own retreat into a world of pure fantasy brought on his doom. When the end came, he had no wish to spare Germany. After all. "those who will remain after the battle are only the inferior ones, for the good ones have been killed...