Word: dooms
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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General Douglas MacArthur did not come out for Senator Taft in his Mississippi speech last Saturday, although such an endorsement was both needed and expected by the Ohio Republican. Instead, the General chose to deliver a thirty-seven minute cry of doom and denunciation that reached a new level of bitter political partisanship and may herald an independent bid for office...
...British proletariat. "In the old pacifist days I wanted to blow up the War Office . . . Under the ... Oxford Group I wanted to drag people to church by the scruff of their necks, and now ... I felt like marching through Claridge's with a banner proclaiming the doom of the rich...
Over the dusty cow town, silence hangs heavy as doom. The womenfolk, both spangled and respectable, huddle helplessly on stairways and behind shuttered windows. Tense and motionless at the long bar stands a frieze of deputies and desperadoes. Even the bearded comic for once is solemn and wary. For this is the moment when virtue - lean, clean, manly, and quick on the draw - must face evil in single combat, to triumph or bite the dust...
Theater to Come. Liebman believes that TV's technical advances will doom such contemporary makeshifts as remodeled theaters and reconditioned warehouses. He has already blueprinted the ideal TV theater of the future: "It will be a big, empty building measuring 100 by 100 feet, with bleachers at one end for a small audience. One large area will have a 180° cyclorama to form a permanent background for sets and create a genuine illusion of curving space." There should also be a separate property building connected to half a dozen subsidiary studios and a large back lot for outdoor...
...emerged from it with a fully manned industrial machine dominating the country's economy. Since the machine was largely government-owned, the government had to decide whether to shut it down, leaving hundreds of thousands jobless, or try to keep it running for peacetime purposes. Prophets of doom were sure that the factories would be deserted, that a heartbreaking depression would sweep the country. Taking over as Minister of Reconstruction, Howe thought otherwise. Said he: "If there is any country in the world where unrestrained optimism is justified, that country is Canada...