Word: dooms
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Dolls Aren't Real. Audrey's mother belonged to an ancient family in the Dutch nobility; their home was once the Castle of Doom, in which the defeated German Kaiser spent his declining years. Audrey's grandfather, Baron Aernoud van Heemstra, onetime governor of the Dutch colony of Surinam, was a familiar figure at the court of Queen Wilhelmina...
...food industry could be developed at the same rate as heavy industry, but the party had been unswervingly right "in the struggle against the Trotskyites and the right-wing capitulators and traitors" who had fought the heavy industry program before. That, he said, would have meant "the doom of our revolution." He rattled off impressive-sounding (for Russia) production figures...
...place was different, the names unfamiliar, but the ritual was the same. Instead of Czechoslovakia or Poland, it was North Korea; instead of Slansky or Gomulka, it was Lee Sung Yup. Last week the voice of Radio Moscow, which has tolled doom for hundreds of topdog Communists, called the roll of 12 more-North Koreans who "confessed" that they had spied and plotted on behalf of the U.S. and South Korea to overthrow Premier Kim II Sung and install a "new capitalistic government" in pitted, desolate North Korea...
...Reich after the German officers' plot on Hitler's life had failed. He claims that he "fully expected to be arrested by the Gestapo," but Von Papen had done nothing to deserve such a fate, and was scarcely the man to walk open-eyed to his doom. When he got home, Hitler handed him another medal: the Knight's Cross of the Military Order of Merit...
...miles a day, pickled his face and hands in beef brine, and became a symbol of invincibility around the world. He fought from a crouch-the "Jeffries crouch"-his bullet head and meaty body low, his left outthrust, his right cocked to mete out instant doom. He beat Joe Choynski, Tom Sharkey, Gus Ruhlin, beat Fitzsimmons again, knocked out Jim Corbett twice. In 1905, at 29, he ran out of opponents and retired, wealthy and undefeated, to raise cattle and prize dogs on his ranch at Burbank, Calif, and enjoy the plaudits due a superman...