Word: foresighted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...work on the Hungarian revolution. He was filing from Hungary when the Times cabled him to get to Israel. Three days later, Bigart's byline appeared over a story from Tel Aviv. The Times's shift of Bigart was only icing on the cake. Thanks to both foresight and luck, the Times had its own coverage wherever the news was breaking; chance found its Military Analyst Hanson W. Baldwin in Cyprus just as the British and French served their ultimatum...
...Ideally," he adds, "the adviser should have technical knowledge of the student's field; he should have foresight enough to predict the number of applicants to graduate schools in five years; he should be familiar with all the courses in the university; and he should know and understand his advisee's personality almost immediately. This person just doesn't exist...
...from one of the state's most blue-blooded families, and rode as a cavalry officer under General Nathan Bedford Forrest (later one of the founders of the Ku Klux Klan). His paternal grandfather not only made a pile out of a drugstore chain, but also had the foresight to buy, at $1 an acre, 600 acres of cotton land near the hamlet of Doddsville in the Mississippi Delta. Today Delta land fetches up to $200 an acre...
Thanks to such foresight, the delicate balance of William Leigh's life was maintained for 16 full years, and his cup of happiness overflowed. Then, recently, in a casual conversation with a neighbor, William committed that dreaded slip of the tongue: he referred to his Chorlton daughter as Lynn, instead of Margaret, when in fact Lynn was an Ancoats daughter-and the only child whose name was not duplicated in Chorlton. Word of the slip got to Emily, the Chorlton wife. Emily sent her eldest son to follow his father when he left home, and before William knew...
...before Election Day. Meanwhile, Hall shopped around for radio and TV time next fall, shrewdly reserving strategic time segments before or after such top-rated shows as This Is Your Life and The $64,000 Question, when he could count on audiences of 50 million or more. Through the foresight of his party chairman, Ike is certain to have the greatest audiences in political history when he goes before the electorate...