Word: doomful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Congo's political Hydra still had three heads: Colonel Joseph Mobutu, Joseph Kasavubu and Patrice Lumumba. But each now seemed to have lost even the vigor for plotting one another's doom. All had their squads of gun-toting guards, but the most strenuous weapon any dared to use was the press conference; in one day harassed reporters covered five. Now and then, one or the other summoned energy for a daring stroke, then subsided quietly. Colonel Mobutu, complaining of fever and frazzled nerves, seemed mainly content to send occasional squads of his troops through the streets...
Biblical Stock Market. A one-day, Soviet-style marriage with a grim giantess (who loved him only for his living space) causes Lasik's political doom, and he is finally forced to take it on the lam westward, one jump ahead of the secret police. The rest of Lasik's nonstop global pratfall is something of an anticlimax-but not to Lasik himself. In Germany he is delighted to find that "everyone around him spoke Yiddish, though in a slightly imperfect way." In his lunatic vision, the Weimar Republic becomes a memorable cartoon-rather as if George Grosz...
...voice of the era-which is a good measure of the era." It may well be. Bright and nervous, frenetic, full of quick smiles and dark moods, shouting "Onward, onward" between laughs, performing in a cashmere sweater, always tieless, he manages to suggest barbecue pits on the brink of doom...
...only to the book's heroine, Julie, the suicide's younger sister, a girl of indomitable goodness of heart and boundless puerility. Ben, of course, is on a presidential mission of civilization-shattering importance, but Julie still thinks he is the cad who drove her sister to doom, so she will not help. Or will she? The reader can only wish that F.D.R...
...that in many cases, even if a company succeeds in bringing a new product to market, it may not have the facilities to sell it, or a market big enough to make money. The big talk in the electronics industry is of the coming "shake-out" that will spell doom for many of the 5,000 firms now in the industry. Even in the glamorous transistor field, only the strongest and most inventive companies can hope to prosper in the increasingly tough competition...