Word: extinctionism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Conditions in the apartment gave substance to her words. Two children of preschool age were using the living room as a playpen, several times coming dangerously close to extinction from electrical wiring, paperweights, and other threatening objects. The kitchen, its plaster peeling, was too narrow to contain an ironing board...
Rumple (book by Irving Phillips; music and lyrics by Ernest G. Schweikert and Frank Reardon) has just one real asset: Eddie Foy. He has the twin gifts of perfect stage presence and quiet audience courtship, the jaunty, pinpointed song-and-dance-man skill of the vaudeville era. He knows every...
But in the midst of national plenty, the bums have come to sense new municipal flies in their bleary ointment. The same blissful prosperity has also brought the bright-eyed vision of urban redevelopment experts, the crash of demolition hammers and the thunder of falling brick. In many U.S. cities...
"I Love Parliament." Although Tory old pros in his party warned that such high-mindedness had no political sex appeal, Diefenbaker plunged ahead. "I love Parliament," he said, and described the occasions when the Liberal government had held it "in contempt." Quoting Howe's "Who's to stop...
If world and especially U.S. leadership faces up to the twin probabilities that poverty can be universally extinguished and that war means universal extinction, then, argues Berle hopefully, "opportunity does exist for a century of peace . . . more soundly based even than that of the Victorian Age."*