Word: dooming
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...astonishing thing has been going on in Washington, and its direful importance is understood by only a handful of U.S. citizens. On the doom-laden Question of Inflation, the President of the U.S. is allowing the power of his office to be thrown against the weight & authority of expert knowledge and understanding...
...succeeded in persuading London itself to act out the crisis as if it were really happening. Their film uses striking documentary detail, a wealth of British character bits; it uses no twists or gimmicks to spoil a logical, harrowing account of how the metropolis tries to head off its doom and at the same time prepares to meet...
...success here or not, whether it was actually worth the time and energy of students involved and the money of the Council. Near failure of some of its projects--most notably, the purchase card plan--and a general lack of brilliant accomplishment in any field, at first seemed to doom the NSA to an early and quiet death here...
...legal verbiage that obscures them. What is almost as remarkable as Cooke's overall performance is his knack for indicating the worth of each piece of evidence as it came before the jury. Inevitably it becomes clear that the incriminating typewriter and the stolen State Department documents must doom the defendant. In the two trials, 20 of the 24 jurymen believed Chambers. Writes Cooke: "The verdict [in the second trial] galvanized the country into a bitter realization of the native American types who might well be dedicated to betrayal from within...
...Edge of Doom (Samuel Goldwyn; RKO Radio) sets out to dramatize Catholic Author Leo Brady's prizewinning novel about a twisted youth who kills a priest. The book was largely an introspective study of the killer's complex motives and his painful redemption. On the screen, the story becomes a second-rate melodrama with a wispy religious motif...