Word: dooms
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...football team ever left West Point with such a send-off and such a premonition of doom. Two M-8 armored cars escorted the squad to the station, where guns boomed out an eleven-gun salute. The brave men of Army were going out to face mighty Notre Dame for the last time...
...proponents of world government, I should like to take exception to your editorial of September 23, entitled "The Third Alternative." The "fury of the Soviet reply to the proposals made by Secretary Marshall" did not seem to be the "crack of doom" to world federalists. Vishinsky's reply, and indeed the whole history of the UN, have been the unhappy fulfillment of our prediction that the UN, as presently constituted, could never succeed. We are still convinced that the world must choose between world federal government and world destruction...
...fury of the Soviet reply to the proposals made by Secretary Marshall before the General Assembly was discouraging to sincere supporters of the United Nations, it must have sounded like the crack of doom to proponents of world government. By this time it should be clear that, if "World Government or World Destruction" represents a complete choice of alternatives, the future is very bleak indeed...
...sudden leap into Utopia is not to be expected. Even gradual change will not be effected without a good deal of inflammatory debate. But the gradual approach, however discouraging and unproductive it may appear at times, is the approach that in the long run will yield results. Prophets of doom who insist that the only salvation of the world lies in something so fanciful as immediate world government, are detracting from the potential strength of the drive for peace and security by diverting attention from more productive channels...
...According to the New Testament and according to the facts of history, there is nothing in the Christian religion which guarantees the permanence of any civilization. Rather, according to the New Testament, not only are all civilizations under the judgment of doom, but the world itself must come...