Word: oblivion
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...widely feared revolutionist who has been a member of the Communist Party since 1918. Henceforth, said the rebel broadcast, the party would have no more truck with "nationalist diversions." Military commanders who could not absorb "Stalinist military science" (i.e., politics first, military exigencies second), would follow Markos into oblivion...
...time the fire was out, eleven of the twelve murals, the works of an unknown artist of the 8th Century, had been baked to oblivion. The rich reds and greens of the originals, which the loving care of generations of monks (and recent injections of acrylic resin) had helped preserve, were gone; the delicately-draped Buddhas and elegant Bodhisattvas were only faint black outlines on the smoke-smirched plaster...
...struggle for birth control in Massachusetts is long and complicated, but the important facts are these. In 1879, one of the so-called Blue Laws was passed making it illegal to advertise or give information about contraceptive devices. As medical knowledge increased and Victorianism waned, the law sank into oblivion. In 1938, however, when birth control clinics were flourishing throughout the Commonwealth, the old law was unexpectedly enforced when the Salem Clinic was raided by police and the doctors arrested. The Supreme Court of the Commonwealth upheld the police action followed by the closing of all the clinics. Thus Massachusetts...
Princeton Jayvee teams is all sports but football, crew, and wrestling will follow their Crimson and Eli counter parts into oblivion this year, the Tiger athletic director announced yesterday...
...indeed seemed the cries of a dying Democratic leadership. Yet shortly before the campaigns began, Louis H. Bean, economic advisor to the Secretary of Agriculture, wrote a small book which quietly predicted that a Democratic victory in 1948 was not at all improbable. Its empirical conclusions do not deserve oblivion in the creseen do of excited oratory, for Louis Bean has not as yet been wrong by more than 1 per cent in 12 years of predicting elections...