Word: dooms
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...invite our present-day religious and scientific doom-merchants to look to the sky on a clear night. God made all those other worlds out there, too. Will it take more courage to venture out there in 1992 than it did for Columbus' crew to sail off the edge...
...when the summer heat beat down on his reeking pit, he almost suffocated. Yet only on darkest nights would he surface for air. One night, crawling out for fresh air, he saw crosses on the rooftops and fled back in panic, mistaking the new TV aerials for signs of doom. At last, when his younger brother married and the whole village reveled round him, Grisha under his dunghill cursed the day when cowardice induced him to be buried alive. He spent a few more months screwing up his courage, then surfaced...
...Essential Cut. Taking his oath of office in 1953, Eisenhower moved swiftly to liberate the U.S. economy from the obsolete wartime controls that still hobbled it. Fair Deal economists issued dark warnings, but the economy whooshed off toward new highs. The doom criers were again out full force in the worrisome days of Recession Year 1958 when Eisenhower refused to use Government's heavy thumb for pushing the panacea buttons of subsidy and deficit spending...