Word: foreshadowing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...next shift Harvard sophomore Peter McLaughlin took a cross-checking penalty in his own zone, something that would foreshadow the Crimson's sloppiness in the final forty minutes, but aggressive penalty killing stymied the Eli power play...
...takes office, Clinton's ponderous start and hedged pledges foreshadow a turbulent voyage...
That is the inherent problem with presidential debates: what is remembered is the theatrics, the contrived drama, the carefully rehearsed sound bites. Lost in the spin control are those rare insightful moments that foreshadow what a would-be President actually will do in office, the crises he will face and, yes, the fateful errors of judgment that are to be his legacy...
...commercials that may foreshadow yet another aspect of Bush's offerings this year, Richard Nixon in 1960 turned every question toward the strength he and Bush share -- foreign policy. Even civil rights took on a foreign dimension in Nixon's hands. "When we fail to grant equality at home," he said, "it makes for bad news around the world." John Kennedy couldn't match Nixon's experience, so (as Perot and Clinton might do) J.F.K. used a jingle to say that he too was "seasoned through and through, but not so doggone seasoned he won't try something...
Oddly enough, that loss seemed to foreshadow the Crimson's only other defeat of the season: Sunday's championship game...