Word: dooming
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...warm yellow water climbs a foot an hour up the face of the levee. Sweating, grunting workers raise extra barriers of sandbags just ahead of the rising river. Sand-boils, bubbles, slides and settles, one after another, threaten to wipe out all efforts in one great gush of doom. The glare of fusees mixes menacingly with the sweet smell of floating gasoline. Debris swims silently downstream to clog up on the bridges, finally carry them away. A privy goes by, "pivoting slowly like a model in a fashion parade." Fleming conveys the protracted melodrama of a bold, restless river...
Saturday's game is the best example the University has seen in a long time of what Harvard football can be. Those 60 minutes showed that it doesn't take subsidized athletes and professionals to make an exciting game. Perhaps the paid prophets of doom-who transfer their revelations through Remingtons--will think about this before they again attack the College team and its Coach who put up with all the noise and keep on working...
...economic crisis is the worst since the war. Imports are already 47.5% ahead of 1950 and rearmament is cutting down exports. The third quarter dollar gap amounts to $638,000,000 and there are no new loans or Marshall money to relieve this. Beer doesn't think that the doom of economic catastrophe is inevitable. Rather, he figures on another American loan...
Portrait Plus. Novelist Cary makes the sudden tragic ending seem inevitable. Johnson, he seems to say, is too original and impulsive a poet of life to endure life's limitations, and Cary leads poor Johnson to his doom with sympathy that never threatens to become maudlin...
Although the growth of the College would have scaled the doom of the small University Hall Commons sooner or later, the immediate cause of its end was a growing tendency on the part of students to eat elsewhere as often as possible, and when they did chance to dine in Commons, to treat it as a sort of unofficial playground and circus area...