Word: foresights
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Class of 1911 met at the Brookline Country Club in 90-degree heat and chose to watch itself running, swimming, playing, eating and drinking years ago. With unusual foresight, the Class hired a professional movie man to film its 25th Reunion for posterity...
...powerful billionaire. Shrewd and ruthless, the shadowy figure of Juan March has floated across the face of Europe for more than half a century, bringing public officials low, underwriting dictators, helping to finance two world wars (on both sides), and buying himself virtual immunity from the law. With characteristic foresight, March bankrolled Dictator Francisco Franco's Spanish Civil War campaign. Today, still Franco's creditor and a powerful voice in Spanish affairs, he boasts a personal fortune that is said to match the U.S.'s entire foreign aid program to Spain - a matter of $1 billion...
Comrades, we live at a splendid time: Communism has become the invincible force of our century. The further successes of Communism depend to an enormous degree on our will, our unity, our foresight and resolve. Through their struggle and their labor, Communists, the working class, will attain the great goals of Communism on earth. Men of the future, Communists of the next generations, will envy...
...much havoc with new students, admissions officers, and the University's financial planners. No one likes increases in tuition and room and board; they are painful for deans to announce and even more seriously difficult for students to manage. Nevertheless although a formal guarantee is not practical, a little foresight and some concern for parents and students with tight budgets would be a welcome step in the right direction...
Honeymoon's End. In this sudden burst of both hindsight and foresight, there was increasing evidence that the press's romance with Jack Kennedy, which began so handsomely during the campaign and waxed so warm after his November triumph, might not long survive the traditional postInaugural honeymoon. But that, too, was to be expected. Since George Washington's time, when the nation's first President complained, "The Government and the Officers of it are the constant theme for Newspaper abuse," the U.S. press has practiced with uninterrupted vigor its historical prerogative to find fault with Presidents...