Word: dooms
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Fellowship of the Ring, by J. R. R. Tolkien. A fantasy about a hobbit who grows out of his tweens to fight Ores, Balrogs and Barrow-wights before he takes on the Cracks of Doom (TIME...
...this." Last week Recce's committee published the results of its work, along with an angry dissent by the committee's two Democrats, Ohio's Wayne Hays and Idaho's Gracie Pfost. The committee's conclusions, said the Democrats, "was, like the theme of doom in a tragic opera, revealed in its prelude...
Only hours before its death sentence was to be carried out last week, the little town of Follansbee, W.Va. got a reprieve-and then a full pardon. Follansbee's doom seemed to be sealed by the deal under which Promoter Frederick W. Richmond would buy out the town's major employer, Follansbee Steel Corp., and sell the mill and inventories to Republic Steel Corp. for dismantling and shipment down South (TIME, Sept. 27; Nov. 8). At the last minute, Federal District Judge Herbert S. Boreman stepped in. He declared last week that the Follansbee stockholders vote approving...
Republican Majority Leader William Knowland's now famous speech warning against the dangers of an "atomic stalemate" has been much criticized for warmongering, doom-merchandising and bad logic. But in all the criticism of Sen. Knowland's position, no really convincing answer to the questions he posed has been forthcoming. First, he senses that a deal with the Soviets may be in the making. Second, Knowland wants also to serve notice on the Communist rulers that there is a price which the United States will not pay for peace. Third, he wants to remind the American people that...
...silver-bearded wizard outlines Frodo's task and quest. He must "find the Cracks of Doom in the depths of Orodruin, the Fire-mountain, and cast the Ring in there ... to put it beyond the grasp of the Enemy for ever...