Word: foreshadowed
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Democrats tried to dismiss Kentucky's clincher as "local issues." The New York Times's Arthur Krock, who used to live in the Fourth himself, judiciously summed up: "If the result did not foreshadow a certain Republican victory next year, it increased the prospect...
Outside the Party there was a quickening. As a great wave passes beneath a ship, the news surged under Festung Europa. To millions of plain people it seemed to foreshadow an end to killing and to hunger...
Organized labor was angry and afraid. Labor leaders blamed John L. Lewis for their predicament. This bill, as a law, would be the first reduction of labor's social gains in ten years. Labor also feared it might foreshadow permanent anti-labor legislation. Cried A. F. of L. President William Green: "UnAmerican, Fascist anti-labor legislation...
With a few exceptions like Pan American's New Orleans application, CAB will probably pigeonhole all route petitions for the duration. But they still have significance aplenty-they foreshadow a postwar battle for transportation routes unparalleled since U.S. railroaders fought head-to-head in the roaring...
...dissenters' biggest gripes were reserved for Economic Czar James F. Byrnes. After the Board's vote was announced, Chairman Davis drew out of his pocket a letter from Jimmy Byrnes which said that, since the case had been discussed with him in advance and did not foreshadow any break in price ceilings, his further approval would be unnecessary. Labor Member George Meany (secretary-treasurer of the A.F. of L.) shouted sarcastically, "Heigh-ho, Jimmy," stalked angrily out of the room...