Word: doomsday
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...less to bequeath, but as his doomsday drew near, Adolf Hitler dictated a last will and political testament. The document, discovered by U.S. Army Intelligence in the suitcase of a minor Nazi bureaucrat, was made public last week...
...scientists, with the purest scientific motives in the world, still toy with the idea of a scientifically induced Doomsday. They know the gun is loaded, but their fingers itch to try the trigger. They have a pretty good idea about how to attack this scientifically fascinating problem. Their most powerful cyclotrons and betatrons shoot out particles with energies up to 100,000,000 electron-volts. This is practically no energy at all, said Professor Wheeler. From outside the earth's atmosphere a wealth of high-energy particles is constantly showering down. By studying these cosmic rays, Professor Wheeler believes...
Britain's Tories got a horrid preview of Doomsday when the Labor Government moved to nationalize the Bank of England. Last week, as the nationalization bill was introduced into the House of Commons, Doomsday turned out to have a sterling silver lining...
...scale plants, the committees urged, should be built at once. It was not known which processes were the best, so all the more promising ones should be started immediately. There was no time for failures, or even for pilot plants. The Nazis might be ahead in the race for Doomsday...
...symbolism and the most granitic naturalism. In Finnegans Wake naturalism and the artist himself all but disappear; the book is a shimmering death-dance of chameleon-like symbols; an attempt at nothing less than a complete serio-comic history of human consciousness-in Levin's neat phrase, a "doomsday book," culminating in a Phoenician paradox of dissolution and resurrection...