Word: foresightedness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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So (until Wednesday a week ago) Mrs. Thompson and Craig Jr. were feeling pretty foresighted about already having had their inoculations and many weeks of Russian-language study from phonograph records. Then at noon Wednesday their several months' grace disappeared in two minutes flat: the phone rang and an...
Although she had done a good deal of miscellaneous operatic trouping, Soprano Resnik had never sung the taxing lead role of Leonora in Trovatore. Twenty-four hours before curtain time, Manager Edward Johnson offered her the chance. She spent the next morning fitting costumes. Then, in an hour and a...
The Beautiful Meal. Then King went visiting, first privately to an R.C.A.F. bomber group whose squadrons bear the nostalgic names Snowy Owl, Alouette, Thunderbird and Goose. Later, with Canadian High Commissioner Vincent Massey and a retinue of correspondents in attendance, he ate an open-air lunch at a Canadian army...
Don Mauricio, in jail, had every chance of getting out, or at worst of being exiled. He had many potent Argentine and U.S. friends. His foresighted charities had won him the support of many groups, including Jewish refugees. Benjamin Cohen, Chilean Ambassador to Bolivia, interceded for him. Even behind bars...
> All honor to Navy's sub hunters. But honor, too, to Army men foresighted enough to have the very-long-range equipment ready when the going was hottest. Navy's land-based, long-range planes were taken over from Army's prescient purchases.-ED.