Word: oblivion
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...television's oldest live dramatic shows were consigned to oblivion last week. Both Kraft TV Theater and Westinghouse's Studio One announced that they were giving up at the end of the present season...
...students, who for some reason are considered inferior to honors candidates. The concept of course restriction denies that a non-honors student can do valuable independent study. It implies, unjustifiably, that once a man fails the first qualifying examination, he is more or less doomed to academic oblivion...
Three days after the Associated Press's manned missile landed in oblivion, the United Press staged its own excursion into the wild blue yonder. Panted a U.P. bulletin from Helsinki: "The state radio here picked up signals early today which indicate Russia may have launched a moon rocket." European radio stations, said U.P., had picked up a "mysterious beep-beep-beep" which lasted three times as long as the signal from an orbiting Sputnik and "suggested the Doppler effect* that would be produced by a transmitter speeding away from the earth...
...these classifications the ins are, in most instances, fairly sure of re-election; the reformers will elect some of their slate; and the perennials and the newcomers are generally doomed to oblivion, this year at least...
...road to oblivion is paved with Little Rocks...