Word: ruined
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Would the powerful Italian bloc now rise against him and ruin his chances? Brooke's campaign managers were unworried, pointed out that he already has an enormous lead and added, almost as an afterthought, that Brooke's wife is a native of Italy anyway...
...Hitler outlawed the races soon after he came to power in 1933 because he found them dishonest and degenerate, and converted the Sportpalast into a propaganda forum. World War II left it a gutted shell, but in 1953 a group of enterprising promoters slapped a new roof on the ruin, installed a new track, and the Six Days was back in business...
...their great loyalty and contentment. This, the third and last volume, bears the title Jefferson Davis: Tragic Hero, and Strode writes in his introduction: "I can find no fatal 'flaw' in the Davis character like to that which Shakespeare gives his heroes to bring about their own ruin, unless it be a passion he shared with the classic Greeks: an almost fanatical belief in freedom in government...
Stepping from the control house into East Berlin itself is a little like stepping into a de Chirico painting. There is an atmosphere of oppression which cannot adequately be depicted by sketching the physical ruin of the city. The number of people on the street drops, the number of automobiles is cut to about a quarter the number in the West, there are empty kiosks, banners ("The State Needs Everyone; Everyone Needs the State"), and wall-murals of workers, farmers, and technicians marching forward under the banner of the German Democratic Republic...
Bullhorns & Crushes. In a close presidential election, any one of these events might have turned into a decisive political issue. But in 1964, the election does not figure to be close, and it is hard to imagine a crisis of any size or scope that could ruin Johnson's prospects...