Word: dooms
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...suntan lotion and volleyballs when you know you're just trundling back to suburbia next week. Ever since my parents decided we couldn't afford the psychic toll of another family vacation (the fighting in the back seat finally got to them). I have known, with a sense of doom approximating the feeling of a Christian Scientist with appendicitis, that I will not be embarking on a spree in the Netherlands Antilles, but on a hopeless quest to entertain myself in a deserted suburban wasteland...
...weeks. The members stood up to Finch's intrepid challenge, and the amendment died in committee. Several days prior to the vote Finch had apparently called off his dogs. In a press conference after the vote Finch forewarned ominously, "Just because some of the prophets of gloom and doom say it can't be done...if it's the people's will, it is going to be done." As soon as Finch capitulated, the Jackson press corps began speculating that the entire escapade was a carefully planned ruse designed to create a volatile isue that could serve as a springboard...
...including our frontiers, offshore islands, waters, continental shelf and air space"-and sent 60,000 troops into the Parrot's Beak. This was the largest force that Viet Nam had put into the field since the two-week battle for Xuan Loc in April 1975, which sealed the doom of Saigon...
Christopher Ntete, exiled member of the South African National Congress, began the teach-in by pointing to April 25, 1974 as "significant because on that date the Portuguese empire collapsed." He added this collapse "spelled the doom of white supremacy in Southern Africa...
...really concerned with the doom and gloom reports," Robert J. Ginn Jr., Director of the Office of Career Services and Off-Campus Learning, said yesterday...