Word: dooms
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...President said, controls had been lifted, inflation avoided, a sensible farm program and other vital legislation enacted. Then the President came to the meat of his speech. While the Eisenhower program was being passed, he said, "there have been sitting on the sidelines . . . the prophets of gloom and doom...
...Communist, and his brethren largely believe him. But he thinks it fit to collaborate with his country's Communist regime, and for that reason it was easy to dismiss Hromadka's speech as the melancholy result of peaceful coexistence and a sharpened sense of doom. Nonetheless, his warnings, did constitute a challenge. In the U.S., it was a good week to look for some answers. Hundreds of Chris tian churchmen from all over the world were meeting in half a dozen U.S. cities to discuss the condition of their faith (see below). The World Council of Churches...
...presidential mansion for lunch and came out properly discreet. A reporter, trying a circuitous approach, asked Financier Baruch about the state of the economy. Replied he quickly: "I think I'll keep quiet about that." Then, seeing that such silence might be interpreted as a prophecy of doom, he hastily covered himself: "That doesn't mean I think it's bad." Striding on, Baruch had another afterthought. Pausing and turning to the pencil-poising newsmen, he nodded back toward the White House and said: "I will say this: the fellow in there knows what's going...
...Russian Macbeth. In these and half a hundred other scenes, Author Gouzenko makes the point that modern Russia breeds only two kinds of men-the dead and the damned. The Fall of a Titan is doom-laden, a kind of Russian Macbeth with its pages drenched in suicides, rapes and murders. It is a book about the corruption of a nation's soul. Few scenes are memorable in themselves, but the cumulative effect is poignant and powerful. A wisp of a girl in a chemical plant manned by forced labor is raped by the foreman, goes mad, and hangs...
Judges have more power than most imagine: particularly, their power to doom or aid legislation by way of construction and administration is immense. The only justification for allowing individuals such sweeping authority is that they use it with the restraint so long associated with their office. "Theirs is not to reason why" is as apt motto for the bench as it is for the Light Horse. Their opinions, whether the legislation involves their own jobs or someone else's, must be limited to determining the legislature's intention, and not what they happen to think of the measure. Whether this...