Word: knell
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...third round signalled a turning point, it didn't ring the knell...
...Soviet inaction appeared to sound the death knell for a policy that took shape under Leonid Brezhnev. After the invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968, the Soviet Union proclaimed that socialist countries had the right to invade a fellow socialist nation whenever the Communist political monopoly was threatened. The so-called Brezhnev Doctrine justified the tanks rolling into Prague and, by extension, Nikita Khrushchev's intervention in Hungary in 1956. But last December, Gorbachev announced that the "use or threat of force no longer can or must be an instrument of foreign policy...
According to the previously set-up formula, activist Hoffman's self-induced end should have sounded the death knell for the generations' hopes. The beacon of idealism, the one who, unlike so many others, never sold out, had admited defeat and in a fit of exhaustion slid into death's enticing embrace...
...death knell had sounded. I turned to leave in despair when a sign before my eyes proclaimed "March Is Nutrition Month...
...1950s were "painful" and "complicated" for Blacks in America, as were the 1940s, the 1930s and every preceding decade. But Jim Crow and segregation weren't invented in the 1950s--indeed, the 1950s sounded the death knell for government-sanctioned discrimination in the United States...