Word: foreshadowing
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...Brink. While the fourth theory seemed the most plausible, the fact was that even the U.S. had no clear idea of what the attacks might foreshadow. Moscow, of course, weighed in with a charge that the U.S. retaliation was an "open and hostile action," but its reaction was remarkably restrained. The Kremlin was clearly anxious to avoid getting involved too closely in Communist China's designs. Hanoi reacted to the U.S. action with contrived indignation. Peking waited nearly 24 hours, then declared that the U.S. "has gone over the brink of war" and warned that "the debt of blood...
Manufacturers' new orders, which foreshadow how busy the nation's factories will be, rose .5% from April to May, but the rise was all in the soft-goods industries; orders for hard goods fell for the fourth straight month...
Drop in Demand. Of the Government's 30 "leading indicators"-those which historically foreshadow the future turns in the economy-a sobering 20 are now pointing down. New orders for hard goods have been slipping for four months. Prices of industrial materials have been dropping for five months, and steel manufacturers, who tried vainly in April to raise prices, are now shading them because demand is so soft. Manufacturers generally are cutting the length of the working week...
...eliminated the sermon to the birds as "too corny," Dillman was still required to bless a menagerie ranging from dogs to ducks. And in the closing minutes of the film-shot in Rome on golden sand previously hallowed by Ben-Hur's chariot tracks -the director decided to foreshadow Francis' death by depicting a raven on a desolate limb. Explained a Curtiz assistant: "We had three ravens in Assisi; one died of cold, and another flew the coop. Some body shut a car door on the last one this morning and clipped off half his wing...
...past ten days, veteran political reporters, editors, and pollsters have noted a distinct swing to Senator Kennedy; and a statewide poll taken by the New York Daily News, indicates that the rumblings may foreshadow a Democratic landslide...