Word: bode
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Crossed lines like this denote uncomplementary transactions, and bode trouble. For example, the Adult-to-Adult question about the cuff links might be answered with a sharp "Where you left them," a reproof that comes from the wife's Parent and is addressed to what she sees as the inept Child in her husband's personality...
Massive cutbacks this year in Federal aid to education can only bode increasing ills for Harvard's budget. The Nixon cutbacks hit Harvard right where it hurts--in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences budget--to the tune of at least $700,000. Rapid disappearance of Federal and other outside funds--previously dependable supports for large graduate student bodies--intensified Harvard's problem of setting priorities with its own income. In response, the Corporation upped its allotment for graduate student aid to $1.9 million, an increase of $400,000 over last year's budget, and the GSAS instituted its third...
...Governor Donald Dwight the state campaign chairman had hoped the large voter turnout would bode well for the Nixon campaign in the state Commenting that Nixon supporters in Massachusetts were complacent and more easily discouraged by bad weather than the hard core McGovern devotees he predicted early in the evening that yesterday's fair weather would bring about a heavier than expected turnout among Nixon voters...
...Crimson win was certainly not unexpected, but the strong performances of Jones and newcomers Durrette and Tsigdennis bode well for the harriers next big test against Cornell a week from today...
...kind about Lenin's character.) But he shows no regret for not having carried the story further. How right he was. The book does not emphasize, but is dramatically explicit about the horrors of Stalinism. It is also perceptive about those aspects of Marxian theory and practice that bode ill for revolution: the assumption that unlike other classes, the working classes once in power will act justly; the double standard of moral behavior that justifies any cruelty for those working with history's revolutionary blessing. But further speculations about whether a Stalinist tyranny could have been avoided...