Word: dooms
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...success here or not, whether it was actually worth the time and energy of students involved and the money of the Council. Near failure of some of its projects--most notably, the purchase card plan--and a general lack of brilliant accomplishment in any field, at first seemed to doom the NSA to an early and quiet death here...
...legal verbiage that obscures them. What is almost as remarkable as Cooke's overall performance is his knack for indicating the worth of each piece of evidence as it came before the jury. Inevitably it becomes clear that the incriminating typewriter and the stolen State Department documents must doom the defendant. In the two trials, 20 of the 24 jurymen believed Chambers. Writes Cooke: "The verdict [in the second trial] galvanized the country into a bitter realization of the native American types who might well be dedicated to betrayal from within...
...Edge of Doom (Samuel Goldwyn; RKO Radio) sets out to dramatize Catholic Author Leo Brady's prizewinning novel about a twisted youth who kills a priest. The book was largely an introspective study of the killer's complex motives and his painful redemption. On the screen, the story becomes a second-rate melodrama with a wispy religious motif...
...deeply toward the root of the question. Stalin and the force which he controlled could stop, start again, turn, twist, dissemble and maneuver. Stalin & Co. were as far as men could be from the compulsive Wagnerian frenzies that had launched Hitler upon the world and swept him to his doom. Stalin & Co.'s evil and their power were of the mind, not of the emotions. Their calculations were as cold as the Volga in February, as dry as a page of Marx. Stalin & Co. might, in a sense, be mad; but they played excellent chess...
...some of the old Maginot Line thinking, of the superiority of the defense, and the delusion of security at cut rates. But the fact was that while the Army still had no atomic artillery under test, it did have some fine new weapons, including some that might spell the doom of the dreaded tank. Beneath all of last week's sales talk, though it was so conceitedly ebullient as to raise suspicions of overselling, the hum of scientific progress in weaponeering was real, and the best news in months...