Word: knell
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...from automotive magazines. But last year, after Chrysler merged with German auto giant Daimler-Benz, the company began to phase out Plymouth, first cutting off sales to Canada and then removing it from Chrysler's marketing schemes. Finally, after sales dropped 30 percent this year, DaimlerChrysler tolled the death knell on the line altogether...
...pastor noted, "There's some possible theological, religious reasons you may not be interested in." Said Couric: "Well, go ahead." And Meredith explained that because of all the seminary students attending Wedgwood, "if I were Satan, and if I were real, and I wanted to deliver a death knell to the kingdom of God, I would target this church...
...There has been a bit of puzzlement that people are somehow reading this as the death knell of women's education, when in fact there's been an extraordinary increase in the health of women's college," said Barnard Director of Public Affairs Lucas Held...
Netanyahu Hobbled by Resignation Israel?s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu may have cheated defeat on his budget vote, but the resignation of his foreign minister could be the death knell for his government...
This is not to say, however, that I hear the death-knell of liberal compassion or civilized political thought among the booms and bangs of Starship Troopers. In fact,Starship Troopers is sophisticated enough to recognize and comment on its own absurd, jingoistic hubris. We know this because director Paul Verhoeven punctuates his movie with the kinds of stentorian radio calls-to-arms familiar from World War II newsreels, and the same stylized "heroic" dialogue of '50s-era comic books and trading cards...