Word: dooming
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East German control over the present eastern sector of Berlin does not necessarily doom the western sector. While the NATO allies must not be deluded by free-city offers, they could deal with East German border guards as agents of the Soviet troops who keep the lid on in the Democratic Republic. If these East German authorities were to attempt to cut off West Berlin then it seems the United States has rightly committed itself to preserve the sector's free status, no matter what the cost. Berlin is no rock off the China coast; it is an actual incubator...
...heavenly hosts are stilled for the only time in all eternity and the seven angels receive from God the seven trumpets which they soon will sound to wake the dead and resume the symbol-choked tumult. The heavens seem empty, and the old earth trembles before its impending doom. It is during this interim, between life and death, that The Seventh Seal takes place...
...Block, a disillusioned knight, returns from the Crusades with his cynical squire just as the bubonic plague is devastating Scandinavia. When Death suddenly appears to claim him, Block proposes they play a game of chess to decide the fate of his soul. He is thus able to forestall his doom, so that he and the squire can wander through the ravaged countryside and closer to bubonic plague is devastating Scandinavia. When Death suddenly appears to claim him, Block proposes they play a game of chess to decide the fate of his soul. He is thus able to forestall his doom...
...protect and legislate for one ethnic minority group, a hearty band of Senate liberals seems prepared to jeopardize the rights of all political minorities. If the liberal changes in Senate rules are adopted when the 86th Congress convenes Wednesday, the amended procedures may someday embarass their creators and doom some of their favorite legislation...
...jarred against thin ice and blacked out both his periscopes. A 15-hour repair feat, in a choppy sea and bone-numbing wind, restored No. 1 periscope to use. Constant fear: that the conditions at the top of the world, which confuse both magnetic and gyro compasses, would doom Nautilus to a game of "longitude roulette," in which the directionless ship might wander aimlessly around the Arctic Ocean without finding either of the two water exits-like a sort of latter-day Flying Dutchman. This fear was banished on the historic '58 voyage by the installation of a complex...