Word: foresaw
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Rage." This final installment opens on that act of defiance and closes with victory in World War II. As Churchill's Foreign Secretary and acknowledged heir, he had the power to dispute the Prime Minister's judgment, and frequently did. As early as 1942 he foresaw the postwar threat of Russia and at summit councils vigorously opposed the inclination of Churchill and Roosevelt to give Stalin just about anything he demanded. The Reckoning could have rested securely on those wartime achievements. But the memoirist could not resist shrouding them with the dark afterthoughts that beset the involuntary...
...student uprising, it has become customary at Cal to let civil courts handle students involved in violations of the law. Kerr feared that adding a university punishment would be taken as breaking an understanding with the thousands of students who had crusaded against such "double jeopardy." He foresaw a renewal of the whole Free Speech Movement uprising...
Scott held out hope for the Republicans, however, prophesying gains in the next gubernatorial and congressional elections. He foresaw new Republican advances in the South on the basis of economic policy rather that racial matters, and said that in 1968 the extremists will not be permitted to maintain control of the party, so that the two parties will resume their "overlapping" positions...
...minority. Among those taking the opposite view were former U.S. Ambassador to Saigon Henry Cabot Lodge and Senate Republican Leader Everett McKinley Dirksen of Illinois. Lodge called such a course "the most dangerous and imprudent" the U.S. could take and equated it with "getting out of West Berlin." Dirksen foresaw that "the rank of the United States in the Orient would plummet" if the U.S. pulled...
...Everett Dirksen topped it off with some gentle joshing. "Mr. President," said Ev, "I am glad that a modest Republican can participate, and with some qualification can express his affection and love for the distinguished senior Senator from Minnesota." Dirksen then projected to next Jan. 20, when, as he foresaw events, the Republicans would have won the White House. Purred he: "I want to be able to say with a heart full of thanksgiving, 'Glory be! We love Hubert and we have kept him here...