Word: dooming
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...speeches, to let the spell of his eloquence expire), Fisher Ames looked like one of the most promising statesmen in U.S. history. But when Jefferson became President, launched his plans to reform the courts, bought Louisiana without bothering with Congress, Fisher Ames became a prophet of doom...
...strange army, but one to which it is an honor to belong. It is an army which the Germans fear. . . . The Germans will not drown out the knocking of fate, however loud they beat. For when they tap out the V they are merely signaling their own impending doom. We shall hurry it as much...
Chiang never admits the possibility of defeat. After 18 months of bombings and thousand-mile retreats, he told the central committee of the Kuomintang: "From what I have said you can clearly see how Japan has worked her own ruin and has sealed her own doom. If Japan should emerge victorious in the present hostilities, then all existing military theories and principles of military strategy would be disproved. . . . We must fight to the end not only to upset the enemy's plan of a quick victory but also to prevent him from gaining a premature peace. This...
...CASE OF THE CONSTANT SUICIDES -John Dickson Carr-Harper ($2). Murder and suicide in Scotland over money difficulties. Weapons: dry ice and "The Doom of the Campbells," a copiously flowing whiskey. Wheezy, stumping Dr. Fell effects justice, not without some villainy of his own. Good as they come...
...speak of the action of the United States, but this I will say: If Hitler imagines that his attack on Soviet Russia will cause the slightest division of aims or slackening of effort in the great democracies, who are resolved upon his doom, he is woefully mistaken. . . . The Russian danger is ... our danger and the danger of the United States...