Word: oblivion
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Tommy's brags only a few choice machines, but many of the top area games people gather there to challenge the Alpine slopes or drive a bouncy little racer into oblivion. Mel, the Bookseller, the bearded gent who sits in the corner near the jukebox most afternoons, gives Tommy's five stars, mumbling something about space creatures in his office...
...linguists under Stalin, who considered himself an expert in linguistics, has never been more acidly described. It is good to know that Freidenberg's long-suppressed writings on such innocent topics as the "Poetics of Plot and Genre" in classical Greek literature are gradually being rescued from oblivion by young linguists in the Soviet Union. But until the rescue is complete, Freidenberg, who died in 1955, will be remembered as the tough-minded and rigorous scholar who gave her inspired cousin a 44-year sampling of her critical intelligence. Her rigor melted only once, when she read Doctor Zhivago...
...REPUBLICAN commercial from the 1980 campaign made the point well; a Tip O'Neill look alike sitting in an oversized limousine munched on a fat cigar. While the fellow in the next seat cried out one plaintive warning after another. O'Neill sat in a happy oblivion. And the car, like the country his party had led for so long, sputtered to a halt stranded in a desert. The election results gave unequivocal testimony to the effectiveness of the advertisement. After half a century as America's party of ideas, the Democrats seemed unable to deal with the realities...
...third straight January, the Crimson (now 5-9-1 overall and 5-7-1 ECAC) has played itself into oblivion with a massive losing streak. The latest installment of the multiple-act tragedy hinged on a third-period goal by Vermont's Tony Messina that muted a Greg Britz tally of the previous minute...
...related and perhaps even more astonishing event has been the resurrection of a legendary patriotic figure after decades of official oblivion: Marshal Jozef Pilsudski, the military hero who was a bitter foe of the Soviet Union and the person the Poles consider the father of their modern country. As chief of state in 1920, Pilsudski repulsed a Soviet invasion by routing the advancing Red Army at the Battle of Warsaw...