Word: doornails
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Although Supreme Court rulings, i.e., the ban on bus segregation in Montgomery, Ala., have made "every segregation act or law of any state as dead as a doornail," declared U.S. District Judge Dozier DeVane in Tallahassee, Fla. last week, "every state has a right to litigate these matters...
...escaping death, he is so much the greater, because his hope and courage light the absurd void to which he is condemned. Mortal man, in fact, is forever alive, whereas immortal Count Fosca, who has lost all hope, is really as dead as a doornail. FREEDOM is SLAVERY, said Big Brother in Nineteen Eighty-Four. LIFE is DEATH, say the gloomier among the existentialists...
...half a mile. "What was it they promised if a Conservative government was elected?" he asked his fellow Tories. "War. Churchill the warmonger would plunge us into war. Well, it has not happened yet. That Socialist slander, which may have cost us 50 seats, is as dead as a doornail. Our opponents have got to think of another...
Chief Tall Bull crashed to the ground, shot dead as a doornail by Major Frank North of the Pawnee scouts. Little did the poor Indian know that in biting the. dust he was launching a literary fad, and that it would change the lives of half the boys in the civilized world. For hot on the heels of North's bullet rode Ned Buntline, the famed dime novelist, all agog to plump Tall Bull's slayer into one of his thrillers. North, a simple soldier, refused to be blown up into a "paperback hero." "If you want...
...dead; dead as a doornail. All price ceilings were off-a state of affairs the U.S. people had not known for more than four and a half years. No matter if Congress did backtrack and restore a few, OPA was over and done with...