Word: dooms
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...political restiveness, the King has invoked his father's stern Moslem laws to repress them. To Philby, who saw Ibn Saud's tribesmen sweep the deserts in their puritanical Wahhabi zeal and fury, this is the surest sign of the regime's decay and advancing doom. Says he: "The fountain of Arab chivalry has been fouled with oil; and the mouths of the preachers and the prophets have been stopped with gold . . . Where virtue reigned on a scale which some may have thought exaggerated, wealth has become the only criterion of merit . . . The common thief still forfeits...
...burden of the play rests on these two; and it is in their failure to consistently force upon the audience the essential horror of their progressive doom, and an understanding of it, that the chief weakness of the production lies...
...straight down. His great 8 by 10 studio camera-basically unchanged in construction from the days of Daguerre, Morse and Mathew Brady, but still, in Smith's opinion, the best for scenic photography-was smashed beyond repair. A second of these cameras, tripod and all, went to its doom from the top of Rainbow Falls. But the third more than proved its worth in the Bitterroot Mountains, where the 40° below temperature would have played hob with roll film...
Grubstake. The French stake in North Africa is prodigious. With its empire in Asia gone, the loss of its African colonies could seal the doom of French claims to being a major power. France has invested tens of billions of dollars in Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia. Its businessmen depend heavily on them for markets, raw materials and labor; its army taps their manpower. "Without North Africa," French imperialists say, "France would have no history in the 21st century. We should be 40 million Frenchmen facing twice that number of Germans. Another Portugal...
...figures were the best possible answer to the doom criers of only a few months ago, who foresaw recession and automation creating critical unemployment. In July, unemployment stood at 2,471,000, a reduction of 200,000 in a month and nearly 1,000,000 below a year ago. During the first half of 1955, the number of jobs in the U.S. increased faster than the labor force. Of every six new civilians entering the work force in June, only one was without a job in July...