Word: dooms
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...pass one another, en route, all unknowing, I wonder; one of us spry-eyed, with clean, white lectures and a soul he could call his own, going buoyantly west to his remunerative doom in the great state university factories; another returning dog-eared as his clutch of poems and his carefully typed impromptu asides? I ache for us both. There one goes, unsullied as yet, in his Pullman pride, toying-oh, boy!-with a blunderbuss bourbon, being smoked by a large cigar, riding out to the wide open spaces of the faces of his waiting audience...
...fortnight ago, the competing Boston Herald took note of such doom, saying: "Our friend John Doom has everything figured out . . . Morning after morning ... he assures us that things are getting worse, will get still worse and soon worse than that . . . Despite Mr. Doom, children are born every day, and parents are happy about it and plan. They talk about Harvard, class of '75." John Fox fired back. Noting that he had been the subject of recent editorials in both the Daily Worker and "our dearly beloved, friendly competitor, the Boston Herald," he offered to have the circulation...
...hair-scratching devices. And on occasion, he may even sell a Modern Magic water closet, a miniature reducing machine or even a toothbrush with a plastic handle to hold the paste. Even now his display case bulges to twice his size, and the New Devices spell a certain doom...
Many books by neo-Malthusian prophets of doom have attempted to answer these questions. Most of them have been superficial, emphasizing minor and easily corrected threats to man's food supply, such as erosion of farmlands. Others have ignored the enormous possibilities of man's scientific techniques. Brown's The Challenge of Man's Future (Viking Press; $3-75) is in a different class. Geochemist Brown of CalTech is thoroughly at home in the tangle of sciences that bear on man's future on earth. He is also at home in history and sociology...
Scelba himself ignored the shouts and disturbances and went on with his speech: "We do not underrate the danger of our situation. But we do not agree with those who write that democracy in Italy is heading toward its doom...