Word: dooms
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...India ruled by force and torn by rebellion is an India mortgaged to the common enemy. . . . Such an India will never be saved by British or American troops. To lose India tomorrow by American default today will be to doom China to subjugation, to deliver all the Middle East to the Axis and to force the armies of Russia behind the Urals, regardless of any second front. The sequel for Britain can only be invasion. The sequel for America can only be an endless and all but hopeless war against opponents who will rule the world...
...talents as a conversationalist. The cable editors of the Chicago Sun are amazed at his subtle outwitting of the Cairo censors. But at CBS it is Chester Morrison's voice itself that is considered most amazing. Says News Director Paul White: "That voice sounds like the voice of doom...
...first 2,000-odd-page volume of a new translation of the Bible called The Bible in the Hands of Its Creator. Its purpose: to explain for the first time the world's current ills, dispose of the Bible's apparent inconsistencies, in so doing, spell the doom of Hitler...
...Parke-Bernet Galleries, fabulously wealthy Belgian Baron Cassel van Doom stumped pompously to every important sale, solemnly focused a pair of high-powered binoculars on everything that reached the auction block. At Gimbels 84-year-old Spanish Millionaire José Lazaro Galdeano, his loud necktie half hidden by a grey spade beard, bought right & left, walked off with one of the season's most expensive buys ($26,742): François Boucher's L'Amour, reputedly posed by Mme. de Pompadour...
...Parunak rested from this exploit, an Army patrol plane, with two men aboard, flopped down in a glacier canyon. One man was badly injured; there was no time for a two weeks' overland rescue. Four miles away was a lake. Its milky waters concealed rocks that could spell doom for a landing plane, but Pilot Parunak set his flying boat down, somehow, anyway. While Balchen and his rescue party trudged to the stranded patrol plane, Pilot Parunak sat up all night kicking icebergs away from his PBY. After this rescue, Parunak and Balchen gave themselves a name: "Greenland Cooperative...