Word: oblivion
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...with that the onetime Premier of Russia, and Nikita Khrushchev's onetime convivial traveling companion, shuffled back to his seat and the brightest fate he could hope for-oblivion...
...Premier Paul Ramadier, Christian Pineau, Robert Lacoste and Jules Moch. The Radical Party, a dominant force in French politics since 1875, saw four of its ex-Premiers (Pierre Mendés-France, Daladier, Edgar Faure and Maurice Bourgès-Maunoury) go down to defeat. Also consigned to political oblivion: rabble-rousing near-fascist Pierre Poujade...
...minds of both medical men and laymen, these productive old men could only be exceptions who proved the rule. Shakespeare reflected the widespread feeling of a hundred generations when he called old age "second childishness, and mere oblivion, sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything...
...door to an escape from blobdom is left slightly ajar. For while oblivion is the goal, simple consciousness, and life itself, is against it. Mahood's last cry from his jar of sawdust is: "You must...
...future, Ruiz Cortines passed on one short rule to guide his successors: "What is necessary must be made possible." Then he added an important corollary: "But every demand that ignores reality deserves oblivion...