Word: dooms
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...under the Anglo-Saxon race," as expansionist pamphleteers called it, was made manifest by men who killed for Gold and God and proclaimed, "The destiny of the aborigines is written in characters not to be mistaken. The same inscrutable Arbiter that decreed the downfall of Rome has pronounced the doom of extinction upon the red man of America...
...What Sticks and Bones lacks is size and scope. Rabe is good enough so that he ought to ponder what makes a dramatist an enduring force rather than simply a Geiger counter of his times. The Greeks and the Elizabethans, who deemed men valiant heroes as great as their doom, produced awesome drama. It is the current American fashion to see men as brain-bleached automatons, and our drama has shrunk to precisely those mean, narrow and dispiriting dimensions...
...loss of two key players in the second half sealed the yardlings' doom as they failed to win for coach Henry Lamar in his final game as a Harvard coach...
Hoping to foil his plan, Lola also alerts all the banks in his old neighborhood, and even the police. Heck pulls off the job anyway. His eventual doom and/or salvation is decided by Lola's implacably honest father...
...positions," contends Kurland's Chicago colleague, Phil Neal. As a result, new constitutional claims by a variety of special-interest groups?tenants, ecologists, the poor, welfare recipients, consumers?are not likely to be warmly received. A similar desire to stay out of new constitutional waters may well doom such pending contentions as the claim that the death penalty is cruel and inhuman punishment, thus a violation of the Eighth Amendment...