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Restraint is beyond him. The volume of his voice is a full roar; the volume of his drinking-on which he has believed "my science and art depended" -has borne him repeatedly to the edge of doom. As a last hope, he finds himself in Ward W of a midwestern hospital's treatment center, vowing to "get out of the whisky business altogether...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Bottle-Scarred | 7/9/1973 | See Source »

...YOUNG PEOPLE: I have not condemned youth by any means. I have not said that the world is going to pieces. I have been encouraged by many fine things that they have done, and I am not going to be a forecaster of doom by any means...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: Chief Clarence Kelley: A Dick Tracy for the FBI | 6/18/1973 | See Source »

...role on life's stage, like ours, soon ends. But what happens to the law is of the gravest moment. The preservation unimpaired of our basic rules of procedure is an end far more desirable than that of hurrying a single sinner to what may be his merited doom...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INVESTIGATIONS: Defying Nixon's Reach for Power | 4/16/1973 | See Source »

...beginning of the season, some poor pessimists looked at the Crimson tennis team and predicted the netmen would have a rough year. Those pessimists--prophets of doom--pointed to the other fine teams in the league, to Harvard's tough opening schedule, and finally to the loss of the number one player, Harris Masterson...

Author: By Andrew P. Corty, | Title: Tennis Team Nails Lid on Navy, 5-4 | 4/16/1973 | See Source »

This is not to say that certain doom is to befall the club as it opens its "regular" season at Penn. It's just that Quaker coach Bob Seddon doesn't hold much stock in the Crimson's early season record...

Author: By William E. Stedman jr., | Title: Crimson Nine Face Penn In Season Opener Today | 4/13/1973 | See Source »

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