Word: dooms
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...this occasion he simply rolled up his sleeves and set to work, fingers clacking out a flamenco on the keyboard, looking for the cause of the glitch. What he uncovered sent a chill down his spine--and has rippled across the Net ever since, like a rumor of doom. Someone, or something, was sending at the rate of 210 a second the one kind of message his computer was obliged to answer. As long as the siege continued--and it went on for weeks--Rosen had to work day and night to keep from being overwhelmed by a cascade...
Coming out of the first half and down 5-1, Harvard knew that it had to come out fast. After scoring the first two goals of the half, Harvard was looking sharp. Then in a matter of seconds, an unfortunate sequence spelled certain doom and epitomized the entire game...
...drugs have also drastically altered the outlook for panic disorder, a chronic illness characterized by recurrent panic attacks and a lifetime of fear in between. The symptoms of an attack--among them palpitations, breathlessness, sweating, dizziness, tingling sensations, hot flashes or chills, as well as a sense of impending doom--seem so dire and life-threatening that patients frequently turn up in emergency rooms convinced they are having a heart attack or going insane. Thirty percent of the 2.4 million Americans with panic disorder go on to develop agoraphobia, the fear of leaving home lest they succumb to panic...
...Democratic President in 52 years (since F.D.R.'s last term)? In the months leading up to the '94 election, especially with the collapse of his ambitious health-care reform, Clinton seemed like "dead meat," to use the dainty Beltway terminology. At first the Republican revolution made Clinton's doom seem even more certain. But it hasn't worked out that way. Many have noted the irony: elected on a promise to end Washington gridlock, Clinton may get re-elected as the guarantor of gridlock. He is Horatius at the bridge, our lonely defender against the Newtite hordes. Or (less partisan...
...April 1912, when the great liner made its first and last voyage. On a starry night, aloft on a waveless ocean, the ship is seen steaming serenely toward New York City at 22 knots. In scene after scene Hansen describes an eerie quiet: the reader feels no sense of doom or foreboding. Wireless warnings of icebergs are received, without alarm...