Word: foresightedness
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As his prison term drew to its close, foresighted Prisoner McKerrow took the precaution of applying for a job as an accountant in England. Last week he was reluctantly forced to write his prospective employers to tell them that he might be delayed in reporting for duty. A shortage of...
There is doubt that the length of scarves, per se, is the only reason for the fad. Foresighted students see in them a return to primitive modes of dress. If a gradual broadening accompanies lengthening, scarves could become sort of northern hemisphere sarong (with appropriate college colors). As they are...
Pockets Inside Out. When an army junta called Dr. Salazar from the obscurity of the economics chair at the ancient (1290) University of Coimbra one day in 1928 to bail out Portugal's swamped fiscal position, the national budget had been balanced only twice in the previous 74 years...
But finally, at 5 o'clock one morning last week, after 67 hours of unrelieved parliamentary inferno, the Chamber came to a vote. The 180 Communists and fellow-traveling Socialists of Pietro Nenni's faction marched out without voting. The rest voted 339 to 25 to approve the...
In the political confusion of May 1952, some optimistic Eisenhower Republicans began thinking about a problem that might be with them in December. The problem: How could a Republican President-elect and his key men, in the few weeks between election and inauguration, get a clear view of the vast...