Word: oblivion
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...Cronkite wondered. "Well, Walter, I must tell you something. I did," said Ike. The message had read: "The landing has been a failure and it's no one's fault but mine." Grinning at Cronkite, Ike shrugged. "If it did fail," he said, "I was going into oblivion anyway, so I might as well take full responsibility...
...victory will sustain the hope that Harvard can make a game of it with Princeton and Yale later in the season. A loss will move the Crimson a giant step toward oblivion...
Harvard plunged into basketball oblivion over the weekend as the quintet lost to Cornell and Columbia, ran its losing streak to five games, and guaranteed the Crimson its 17th straight second division finish in the Ivy League...
...sales slipped badly as nylon and other new synthetics came on the scene; when Du Pont closed down the last of its rayon-producing plants last year, it seemed that rayon's day was finally over. But, with surprising fortitude, rayon has refused to be pushed into oblivion; it has survived as the largest selling artificial fiber in the U.S., and now accounts for more than a third of the volume of the $1.9 billion synthetic business. After slumping for five years, rayon sales have jumped 20% in the last...
...galosh has gone galumphing into oblivion, and in its place is the musketeer boot, the Robin Hood boot, the cossack boot, lined, unlined, fur-topped, made of fake leopard or silk faille or nylon mesh or even real leather. Office girls wear them to work at the slightest sign of inclement weather, carrying their shoes in a tote bag (the smarter ones keep a pair of shoes in their desk). For the evening, slippers are carried in jeweled reticules...