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Word: dooms (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...warnings and alarms. Cancer alerts have become almost as commonplace as weather reports. Strictures on how to avoid heart attacks pop up everywhere. Preventive campaigns stir up a constant din of sermons against careless driving, against starting fires, against getting too fat. It is like the continual murmur of doom's own voice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Essay: Living Happily Against the Odds | 12/24/1979 | See Source »

Harvard owns stock in several of the companies on the protesters' "profits of doom" list, including General Electric, Exxon, Gulf Oil, Atlantic Richfield Oil, and Kerr-McGee

Author: By William E. Mckibben, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Protesters to Sit In At Stock Exchange | 10/29/1979 | See Source »

...victory even in death by calling down all kinds of electronic gods to attend: photographers, wire services, television networks, and at last even the bardic Mailer. No one else has so well caught the logic by which small creeps become celebrities, even when they entertain us with their doom...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Doom as Theater | 10/22/1979 | See Source »

...Carter can still count on the vast majority of the officially picked representatives. But the slim Carter victory that most predict may still be "perceived" was a loss. The president's political ship is slowly sinking. Any less than a landslide in the once-secure South could spell media doom for the man from Georgia...

Author: By Robert O. Boorstin, | Title: More Fun in the Sun | 10/13/1979 | See Source »

...these people. The political unrest of the time goes by practically unnoticed--the families are touched by the outside world only twice during the year or so the film portrays, once when a newlywed couple journeys to nearby Milan where troops march a group of demonstrators to their doom, and again when a village festival brings angry young orators who give speeches about human rights and democracy. Blank faces watch the troops and the speakers: the troops are soon eclipsed by the wonders of the city and the angry speeches no longer heard when someone spots a gold coin lying...

Author: By Sarah M. Mcgillis, | Title: Truth and Beauty | 10/4/1979 | See Source »

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