Word: doomsdayers
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...Supreme Court rulings cannot be judged by the shrill cries of demagogic politician's. More important than the demagogues in the impending battle will be a band of solid Southerners who have already abandoned the old devices and clichés and are prepared to fight until doomsday with legal weapons to maintain segregation in their public schools. The day after last week's Supreme Court opinion, an editorial in the influential Richmond (Va.) News Leader made clear the nature of this opposition. Excerpts...
...walkout over ordinary union demands-for a 20? hourly wage hike, a union shop, seniority rights, arbitration of grievances-has turned into an old-fashioned finish fight between the nation's No. 2 union and its No. 2 plumbing-fixtures manufacturer. The union vowed war "until doomsday." Said Kohler: "No outsider can determine our operation...
...When he saw . . . that the world wouldn't die with him. he turned the world's people into beasts, [i.e., in Animal Farm') . . . Since that didn't satisfy his yearning ego. he prophetically destroyed world and people in Nineteen hundred and eighty-four: [his] Doomsday Book...
...playing field of English letters. It shows up again in Eric Linklater's entertaining new novel, The House of Gair, but only as a chilly device to drive the characters indoors. Indoors means, of course, the one and only house on the moor, with its hint of doomsday mysteries. But the real specialty of The House of Gair is light comedy, not heavy breathing...
...sampan as the LSTs bearing 14.000 Chinese P.W.s from Korea nosed into the gaily decorated pier. Flag-waving thousands lined the 20-mile route to Taipei; firecrackers were so thick that the prisoners waving from their trucks were often hidden in haze. Premier Chen Cheng proclaimed "the advent of doomsday" for Communist China's rulers, and posters urged ACCELERATE PREPARATIONS FOR COUNTERATTACK...