Word: extinctionism
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If the Lone Star State has little room for the two-party system, many Texas Democrats will fight to extinction if necessary to maintain a two-party party.
With each new book he writes, any conscientious author tries to surpass his best previous performance. In the case of Edwin O'Connor, his best previous performance was The Last Hurrah (TIME, Feb. 13, 1956), an unforgettable portrait of an Irish politician doomed, like the torchlight procession, to extinction...
In the Hole. Common market nations now get only 37% of their energy from coal, compared with 45% from oil and the rest from other sources. In The Netherlands, some of Europe's best mines are being shuttered; the Dutch State Mines are diversifying, already earn more from chemicals...
A life endures in ashes alone; the only persistence is extinction.
As evidence that the mystery of such anthropological anomalies may never be solved, Flame picks Africa's Auen nomads, caught in the fierce Kalahari desert between the Boers of South Africa and the northerly Bantus. When game is scarce, Gaisseau relates, they often spare their young the agony of...