Word: dooms
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...report of the ghost of a little old French lady in a faded green bonnet who tiptoes through the rooms of an old plantation at night. "Tirelessly, she journeys from bedchamber to bedchamber, raising mosquito baires and peering hopefully into the face of each sleeper." It is her doom never to find the face she seeks...
...Fleet & the Bull. If the enemy had not already heard the crack of doom, he heard it now. The Third Fleet that swung up & down the east coast of Japan was the mightiest the world had ever seen. The Navy took pains to ensure that Japan should feel its power...
...Came Along (Hal Wallis-Paramount) almost justifies the people who "don't want to cry at the movies because there's enough sadness in the world already." Striving bravely, in the best tradition of air-corps romance, to maintain a gallant gaiety in the face of impending doom, the picture fails completely to realize that its tears are obviously glycerine, its poignance pointless, and its gloom only a studio fog obscuring what should be a wholly delightful comedy...
Johnson. Fearful that steady migration to cities might doom the rural church, they decided that ministers could make country life more interesting if they knew more about its practical phases. Said Dean Trimble: "Since the church is the only institution in some [rural] communities, we should have men who would be able to wrestle not only with the religious problems but furnish some leadership for the community in all of its aspects." The school was nonsectarian, but most of the preacher-students were Methodists. Instructors skirted doctrinal mat ters, stressed the cold facts of soil conservation, health, education. Classes were...
...setback handed to the Socialist CCF was not as shattering as it looked. It certainly did not mean what jubilant right-wingers claimed it meant: the certain doom of the party. Though CCFers got only 8% of the 90 seats in the provincial legislature, they received 22% of the popular vote. What was even more interesting: in the 13 ridings in traditionally conservative Toronto, 667 more people (73,087) actually voted CCF this time than in the last provincial election...