Word: doubted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...hero, a Nobel-prize winning researcher named Jerry Cornelius (Jon Finch), is rather skeptical about it all or, more properly, about the scientists and the girl. There is no doubt that the world is ending. There are riots, famine and martial law in Calcutta. Amsterdam has just been accidentally A-bombed into, as an American major (Sterling Hayden) puts it enthusiastically: "Twenty-eight square miles of white ash." The U.S. magnanimously offers to pay reparations to the five survivors, but settling of accounts is of secondary importance in such parlous, fissile times...
...doubt that your choice even sits well with the millions of poor, underprivileged Arabs who watch while Faisal leaves them behind on their camels as he speeds away with his entourage of Cadillacs and Lear jets...
...moments of doubt (which is to say most of the '60s), Melish calms himself by meditating on the contents of his wallet. There is a secret-society pin, a silver matchbook from his wedding and-not to be believed-a condom. Melish is a clear case of arrested development, a closet sentimentalist carrying a cherished artifact of his hot-to-trot days at a time when everyone else seems to be in full gallop...
Finally the cigar-chomping M.C. introduced Restic, who stood and said earnestly, "This [Yale] is the best football team I've played against since I've been at Harvard, without a doubt. By far." Matthews rested his chin in his left hand, gazing at his coach. It was hard to move behind Restic's placid look and guess what he was thinking. Was he worried about the Yale game? Harvard had bumbled away last Saturday's Brown game, and would have to beat undefeated Yale to share the Ivy championship. A piece of the Ivy title was important to Restic...
...bald really beautiful? Indeed it is -at least in the eyes of a bevy of female beholders. "Bald men seem more intelligent," says Mrs. Jake Garn. Says Soprano Beverly Sills: "There's no doubt they're very sexy." Agrees California Beauty Salon Entrepreneur Aida Grey: "A bald-headed man is very exciting." About eight months ago, in fact, Grey became aware of the new trend (particularly, she notes, among attorneys) and developed a special wax treatment that removes any remnant fringe...