Word: dooming
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...whom I have seen don't lie when they say we are in economic difficulties, and we had better do something about it ... To hear the Republicans' political orators constantly berating those of us who want to look the economic facts in the face as prophets of doom and gloom, you might think the welfare of the nation is for them merely a jolly game of blindman's buff...
...figure fairly bursting with progress. But Toynbee believes that the 20th century's thin, frightened young man who sees only a question mark in the future ("Is he perhaps wondering whether he can even look forward to having any successor of any kind?") may be equally wrong. Doom is no more automatic than progress...
...novel will be on the best seller lists for many weeks. When the Old School Tie pretends to very little, it is an entertaining if innocuous comedy about an American boy in an English prep school, but when it hints at a dying generation, a dying Europe, and impending doom, the novel descends to unattractive superficiality...
...million.* At the time, said Richmond last week, he thought that he could find a buyer who would continue to operate Follansbee at its present site. But after approaching 18 integrated steel companies with no success, he finally accepted the offer from Republic, even though it might bring doom to the town of Follansbee. Last week Richmond made an offer of his own to the town: he would pay a full year's salary for an executive secretary if the townspeople would form a promotional organization to lure new industry to Follansbee...
...performance. Conductor Munch last week took no chance on faulty entrances, had his warning arm pointing straight toward heaven four bars ahead. The brass bands broke loose (two were placed in the auditorium, giving a kind of stereophonic effect) ; they sounded for all the world like the trumps of doom...