Word: doomful
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...high noon climax in a crescendo of ticking clocks, shots of the railroad tracks stretching long and level into the distant hills and of the hushed, deserted streets of Hadleyville. Throughout the action, Dimitri Tiomkin's plaintive High Noon Ballad sounds a recurring note of impending doom...
Because of this doom and gloom atmosphere the scientists produce whenever they apply pencil to paper, I would not suggest reading ASF in one concentrated dose. It becomes dull after a while when the veneer of scientific plausibility and shrewd story telling loses its novelty and only the tears remain. But for all that, ASF is produced for more than just the science-fiction devotees, and taken with restraint, is a welcome relief from the heavy tomes of reading period...
General Douglas MacArthur did not come out for Senator Taft in his Mississippi speech last Saturday, although such an endorsement was both needed and expected by the Ohio Republican. Instead, the General chose to deliver a thirty-seven minute cry of doom and denunciation that reached a new level of bitter political partisanship and may herald an independent bid for office...
...British proletariat. "In the old pacifist days I wanted to blow up the War Office . . . Under the ... Oxford Group I wanted to drag people to church by the scruff of their necks, and now ... I felt like marching through Claridge's with a banner proclaiming the doom of the rich...
Over the dusty cow town, silence hangs heavy as doom. The womenfolk, both spangled and respectable, huddle helplessly on stairways and behind shuttered windows. Tense and motionless at the long bar stands a frieze of deputies and desperadoes. Even the bearded comic for once is solemn and wary. For this is the moment when virtue - lean, clean, manly, and quick on the draw - must face evil in single combat, to triumph or bite the dust...