Word: dooms
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Eternally Quiet. At Columbia, Burns and Columbia's President Dwight Eisenhower met only casually. But when Ike went to the White House, the doom criers already were predicting a new era of bread lines and Apple Marys. The three-member Council of Economic Advisers had lost professional standing under President Truman; Leon Keyserling, his chief economic adviser, was a lawyer who skillfully tailored economic conclusions to fit political ends. Ike ordered a search for the man who knew most about depressions and what causes them. Arthur Burns was chosen...
...victim of inhuman pride. Unlike the willful Lear, the willful Coriolanus cannot term himself more sinned against than sinning; also unlike Lear, he is hardened and envenomed by adversity. He is prevented from destroying Rome only by the pleadings of his mother Volumnia, who, in high Roman fashion, helps doom her child to save her fatherland...
Prophets of agricultural doom are fond of saying that U.S. farms are rapidly losing their fertility and will some day turn into sterile wastelands. This is not happening in one long-cultivated U.S. region. C.L.W. Swanson. chief soil scientist of the Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station, says that the farmland of New England, which was not naturally fertile when the Pilgrims landed, has been made fertile by proper farming methods, and is growing more productive all the time...
...Aims. Taking note of widespread talk about a business recession, the President spoke sternly of the "self-appointed peddlers of gloom and doom." Assuring the people that his Administration is deeply concerned with "the realities of living," he said: "Groundwork . . . has been laid by this Administration in the strong belief that the Federal Government should be prepared at all times-ready, at a moment's notice, to use every proper means 'to sustain the basic prosperity of our people...
Everest, therefore, wears through almost a third of its 71 minutes before the expedition is safely stowed in its base camp at 18,000 ft. in the western cwm (a Welsh word that rhymes with doom), the colossal glacial ditch by which access to the peak is possible. From there to the summit is a lung-bursting matter of 46 days, with the camera dogging along for all but the last few thousand feet of the way. It sees some awesome things-avalanches down the vast chute of the cwm, in which ice blocks the size of a ten-story...