Word: dooms
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...roar of the feline spelled doom for Radcliffe's undefeated field hockey team, as a spirited Princeton squad, inspired by a shining defensive performance of goalie Lisa Harrington, shut out the Cliffe, 2-0, in drizzly weather last Saturday in Princeton...
CAMPAIGN rhetoric is not always up to the level of 1884, when a Republican helped doom his candidate by calling the Democrats the "party of Rum, Romanism and Rebellion." But this season's accumulation of banalities, balderdash, wit (sometimes unintended) and invective is impressive enough. Some of last week's prize entries...
...Even listeners with only high school French got a better sense of the plot. Bernstein looked at the score as though he had never conducted it before -which he had not-and came up with a broad, slow but crackingly taut performance that underlined Carmen's sense of doom. "Perhaps," says McCracken, "the sense of tragedy was even more influenced by the death of Mr. Gentele. The real tragedy influenced everyone's approach." ∎William Bender...
...shock that Boris saw Bobby not only show up at the last minute for the third game, but also display the effrontery to demand that it be played in a dingy back room, ordinarily used for Ping Pong. "Just this once. Never again," said Boris, thereby sealing his own doom. By remaining intransigent, he probably could have provoked another walkout by Bobby and won the entire match by forfeit. Gradually falling behind after Bobby played an unorthodox move early in the game, Spassky finally extended his hand in defeat at the 41st move; it was the first time...
Meadows is no latter-day Malthus prophesying doom on the basis of intuition; instead he has produced the first vision of the apocalypse ever prepared by computer. His team built a computer model of the world, fed the machine masses of data on population and industrial growth rates, farm yields and the like, and constructed "feedback loops" to gauge the effects of changes in one variable, like food production, on another, like birth rates. In restrained, nonhysterical, at times almost apologetic language, the team insists that unchecked growth can have only one outcome: "A rather sudden and uncontrollable decline...