Word: betokened
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...been arrested and charged with his kidnaping, and all but $6,114.24 of a $240,000 ransom payment had been recovered. Besieged by newsmen's requests for details as to how its sleuths had caught up with the kidnapers, the FBI maintained a silence that seemed to betoken deep wisdom as well as becoming modesty...
...writings abound in magnificent arrays of quotable passages. His works teem with provocative insights--too many, perhaps, ever to be fully systematized. But, most of all, James radiates moral greatness. His openness of mind and eagerness to defend underdogs, his freedom from vanity and from paltry ambitions, all betoken what his father would have called "largeness of soul...
...tired lull' and the absence at present of argument on general politics in this country." wrote British Historian Lewis Namier before his death in 1960. "Practical solutions are sought for concrete problems, while programs and ideals are forgotten by both parties. But to me this attitude seems to betoken a greater national maturity, and I can only wish that it may long continue undisturbed by the workings of political philosophy...
...Though France's crusty President Charles de Gaulle growled "Je ne le con-nais pas" when he heard of Lemnitzer's selection, there is little doubt that the NATO member nations will approve him as the new SACEUR. But Lemnitzer's appointment does not necessarily betoken a change in U.S. thinking about NATO...
...found one ally in the Philadelphia Inquirer, which declared the alliance to be "the sole hope of the Republican Party's future in this city." He found another in Dwight Eisenhower, who called a primary-eve press conference in Philadelphia to proclaim that success for the alliance would betoken "victory for the Republican Party in Pennsylvania in November, and a resurgence of G.O.P. strength in the big cities throughout the nation." And then- kerplunk! The alliance had put up 29 candidates for major party and public offices against the Meehan-Hamil-ton Philadelphia G.O.P. organization. All 29 alliance candidates...