Word: dooms
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Thus the amendment seems likely to doom some of the hoariest of all political fund-raising gimmicks. No deductions would be permitted for ads in "a convention program of a political party, or in any other publication" or for "admission to any dinner or program" if any part of the net proceeds "inures to a political party or to a political candidate." Nor would write-offs be allowed for "admission to an inaugural ball, inaugural gala, or similar event identified with a political party or a political candidate...
...water. Mosquitoes of some breeds collect on people playing flutes. Lions fly into panic, dogs sink into bliss-though only when the flute is played in the key of C minor. In China, the musk deer is hunted with a Judas flute, which the deer meekly follows to its doom...
...scene where Daniel is called to the palace by the prince and courtiers. Their voices are heavy, earthbound and secular, and Daniel's divinely sweet and pure. As Belshazzar John Howell's voice is rough and dull, as it should be; and when Daniel reads him the prophecy of doom his voice quavers and almost cracks with fear. The one female in the production, Sandra Robbins, plays both Belshazzar's queen and the angel. Her soprano voice rings clearly and powerfully over the male voices, and projects almost enough femininity to balance with the rest of the cast. The chorus...
...there it is: we don't know. Every time Schlesinger seems to be bringing himself to voice a major criticism of the President himself, rather than his policies, something intervenes, and we are awash in Mrs. Kennedy reading "I Have a Rendezvous With Death," and the Presidential foresights of doom, and the drums rolling, and the procession marching up Capitol Hill...
Loudspeakers boomed out messages of doom to the attackers: "We have just killed your commander" and "Our brothers have just captured three of your recoilless rifles." One by one, the Red guns fell silent; then the defenders fixed their bayonets and sprinted from their rifle pits. The Reds fled-only to return in regimental strength four days later and trigger a bloody battle among the rubber trees that was still raging at week...