Word: dooms
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...carefully considered every detail of the case. He had begun to study the case even before he became President, anticipating that Harry Truman would be unable or unwilling to reach a decision in his last days as President. Dwight Eisenhower's answer all but closed the door of doom on the Rosenbergs. There were still a few desperate delaying actions to be made-and Lawyer Emanuel Bloch might succeed in winning more borrowed time-but the only real opportunity of escape lay with the Rosenbergs themselves. If they broke their long silence-if they confessed the secrets of their...
WHEN Graham preaches about pride or venality, he struts; when he speaks of the unregenerate's awful doom, he covers his eyes with both hands; and when he warns that "it can happen to you," his forefinger slashes at every sinner's heart. To keep himself mobile, Billy clips a lipstick-shaped microphone to his necktie; an assistant holds the coiled slack of the wire, and pays it out to him as he moves about. On the pulpit, Billy rests two black leather books. One is a notebook containing a typed outline of tonight's sermon...
...kind of composition for tape recorder was unwound: Low Speed, Invention and Fantasy in Space by Otto Luening and Sonic Contours by Vladimir Ussachevsky. Out of the loudspeaker came the sound of a flute-but a flute that could growl like a bassoon, or thunder like the trump of doom, as well as chirp like a bird-and the sound of a piano that seemed to accompany itself with organ tones. Haunting both instruments was a maze of echoes and pulsing overtones...
...still, there is no point in the University threatening undergraduate organizations with destruction simply for competition's sake, especially when there is ample competition already. While Cine may be no such trumpet of doom, it is likely that importation of a theatre group or a full time, two-pictures-a-week movie producer would cut down student organizations in the field...
There is more to that gloss than the sort of shoe polish applied during the twenties under the name of Normaley. And despite the uncertainties and vigorous predictions of doom hatched by a limited war, this glimmer gives a liberal education more meaning and purpose. At least, those who spend four years here studying, seeking agreement on broad issues without resort to staves or oratorical orgies, can take hope from it that the wall separating them from the world at large is not so thick as it seems...