Word: impendingness
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Operator: At this time of night, we are only allowed to accept telegrams announcing a death or someone's impending arrival.
Swing Voter. When Clark's nomination reached the Senate, it was unanimously and swiftly confirmed. The only regrets aired on Capitol Hill, in fact, were over the elder Clark's impending departure from the Supreme Court -probably when the current term ends in June. The last of Truman...
The theme of photography as an escape from reality is not a new one. In Hitchcock's Rear Window, the crippled photographer (James Stewart) uses his telephoto lenses to spy on his neigbors. He becomes involved with their problems in order to avoid coping with his own fear of life...
The confusion over Arthur J. Goldberg's impending visit has made it clear that the Kennedy Institute's Honorary Associate Program, at least in its original conception, took little account of the possible conflicts between carefully drawn educational plans and strong political feelings.
Stark Mortality. Romanesque art gradually came to express a sense of impending doom. In some works, God became a magistrate of man's fate. The Last Judgment replaced the Crucifixion as a popular subject. In a fragment of a 12th century tympanum, or semicircular panel atop a doorway, the...