Word: dooms
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When he finally appeared before the committee, headed by Arkansas' voice-of-doom Senator John McClellan, Murphy acquitted himself fairly well. He seemed at least to convince most of the Senators that he was honest, if indecisive...
...heavenly hosts are stilled for the only time in all eternity and the seven angels receive from God the seven trumpets which they soon will sound to wake the dead and resume the symbol-choked tumult. The heavens seem empty, and the old earth trembles before its impending doom. It is during this interim, between life and death, that The Seventh Seal takes place...
...Block, a disillusioned knight, returns from the Crusades with his cynical squire just as the bubonic plague is devastating Scandinavia. When Death suddenly appears to claim him, Block proposes they play a game of chess to decide the fate of his soul. He is thus able to forstall his doom, so that he and the squire can wander through the ravaged countryside and closer to home as the game progresses. Along the way they encounter Medieval life in all its variety--from a young girl destined for the stake for witchcraft, to a family of simple traveling actors, significantly named...
...Until he relearns these things, he will write as though he stood alone and watched the end of man. I decline to accept the end of man. It is easy enough to say that man is immortal simply because he will endure; that when the last ding-dong of doom has clanged and faded from the last worthless rock hanging tideless in the last red and dying evening, that even then there will still be one more sound: that of his puny inexhaustible voice, still talking. I refuse to accept this. I believe that man will not merely endure...
...weeks of election campaigning, Canada's Prime Minister John Diefenbaker, 66, insisted that "steady growth and expansion is the climate of Canada today." Anyone, such as Opposition Leader "Mike" Pearson, who pointed to vanishing exchange reserves or fleeing foreign capital, was dismissed as a "crier of gloom and doom." Last week, barely six days after he squeaked back to power with a wobbly minority government, Diefenbaker abruptly turned about to announce that Canada's foreign exchange reserves had dwindled so alarmingly that he had been forced to call on the 'U.S., Great Britain and the International Monetary...