Word: dooming
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Counter-revolutionaries and reactionaries do not reconcile themselves to their ex tinction; on the contrary, it is precisely because of their impending doom that they put up resistance and carry out sabotage more desperately." The terrorist with the twisted mouth knows better than most that there will never be peace-must never be peace-in Communist China...
...Senate side, the Republicans must depend heavily on Northern Democratic help to force civil-rights legislation through the Judiciary Committee. They are likely to get that help. Minnesota's Senator Hubert Humphrey, for one, says: "The Democratic Party is spelling its long-term doom unless it does something. Our party ought to be the champion of equal rights-it's morally right and it's politically right. If this Administration is sincere, they'll get my full support...
...political restiveness, the King has invoked his father's stern Moslem laws to repress them. To Philby, who saw Ibn Saud's tribesmen sweep the deserts in their puritanical Wahhabi zeal and fury, this is the surest sign of the regime's decay and advancing doom. Says he: "The fountain of Arab chivalry has been fouled with oil; and the mouths of the preachers and the prophets have been stopped with gold . . . Where virtue reigned on a scale which some may have thought exaggerated, wealth has become the only criterion of merit . . . The common thief still forfeits...
...burden of the play rests on these two; and it is in their failure to consistently force upon the audience the essential horror of their progressive doom, and an understanding of it, that the chief weakness of the production lies...
...straight down. His great 8 by 10 studio camera-basically unchanged in construction from the days of Daguerre, Morse and Mathew Brady, but still, in Smith's opinion, the best for scenic photography-was smashed beyond repair. A second of these cameras, tripod and all, went to its doom from the top of Rainbow Falls. But the third more than proved its worth in the Bitterroot Mountains, where the 40° below temperature would have played hob with roll film...