Word: dooms
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Churchill's task was to dramatize a new time of trouble for Britain. The country resounded to ministerial predictions of doom. Anthony Eden: "The country is in acute and continuing danger." Food Minister Woolton: "We may not be able to maintain the new meat ration" (16? worth a week). Gloomiest of all was Chancellor of the Exchequer R. A. Butler, whose painful lot it was to propose a new national belt-tightening in Parliament. Warned "Rab" Butler: "We face the risk of being bankrupt, idle and hungry." To weather the storms, at home & abroad, Britain needed Churchill...
...some Americans, the name Marx summons up a bearded prophet of social doom, but to most it means a zany tumble of brothers. Groucho is the zaniest and most durable of the lot. In his long career as a comedian, he has met and mastered three mediums: movies, radio and now television...
...reason James Joyce wrote as he did is, no doubt, explained in the first episode [of Ulysses], "You behold in me, Stephen said with grim displeasure, a horrible example of free thought." However, both are artists. And what else, cries the voice of doom, matters...
...warm yellow water climbs a foot an hour up the face of the levee. Sweating, grunting workers raise extra barriers of sandbags just ahead of the rising river. Sand-boils, bubbles, slides and settles, one after another, threaten to wipe out all efforts in one great gush of doom. The glare of fusees mixes menacingly with the sweet smell of floating gasoline. Debris swims silently downstream to clog up on the bridges, finally carry them away. A privy goes by, "pivoting slowly like a model in a fashion parade." Fleming conveys the protracted melodrama of a bold, restless river...
Saturday's game is the best example the University has seen in a long time of what Harvard football can be. Those 60 minutes showed that it doesn't take subsidized athletes and professionals to make an exciting game. Perhaps the paid prophets of doom-who transfer their revelations through Remingtons--will think about this before they again attack the College team and its Coach who put up with all the noise and keep on working...