Word: dooming
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...been injured in a collision between his light car and a heavy truck, was deaf, blind and speechless; he had no reflexes at all, and he did not show any pain reactions. The full medical diagnosis, reported in the magazine Medical World News, reads like a lengthening catalogue of doom...
When word came that Albee was readying a big play for Broadway, the ticking of the deathwatch could at once be heard all the way to the village. But Albee has fooled the prophets of doom with Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, his first full-evening play (I do not invoke the much-used term 'full-length, for any work of art that is as long as it ought to be is full-length), and done it with a vengeance: Virginia Woolf comprises three acts each about an hour long...
...would not be out of place at a funeral. More recently she has added some lighter material to create a semblance of variety, but the force of sadness in her personality is so compelling that even the wonderful and instructive lyrics of Copper Kettle somehow manage to portend a doom deeper than a jail sentence...
...sweetest situation in politics is to be able to take an issue and run on both sides of it. His voice tolling warnings of doom, Senate Republican Leader Everett Dirksen, 66, told Illinois voters of the Kennedy Administration's shortcomings. "Oh," intoned Dirksen of the New Frontier, "they've got us moving again, bless you all. But we're moving downhill into the valley of the shadow." Yet in the next days, Dirksen described his palsy-walsy relationship with President Kennedy, both personally and on international problems: "He has been my friend for 14 years. He calls...
...under Britain's stern Articles of War, and his instrument for enforcing discipline is Claggart. As long as Claggart keeps his villainy within the bounds of the articles, Vere, though he despises him, feels compelled to keep him aboard. This is a fateful decision, for it seals a doom not only for Claggart but for Billy Budd as well...