Word: foresights
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...fancy me mad. Madmen know nothing. But you should have seen me. You should have seen how wisely I proceeded - with what caution - with what foresight - with what dissimulation I went to work . . . Oh, you would have laughed to see how cunningly I thrust...
...some way should have been found to let CBS test the public's reaction to color. As the New York Times snapped: "The public will wonder what has become of free enterprise. It will also wonder if television must be monopolized by the company that has had the foresight to develop a system of color transmission and reception which will be acceptable...
Harvard, with traditional foresight, cornered the young mechanical engineer first and shortly thereafter he was signing his first Crimson contract. Now, 26 years later, he is still turning out winners. Actually, Coach Mikkola's Olympic experiences didn't end with the 1920 championships. In 1924 he took a brief "leave of absence" to coach the Finnish team for the Paris contests...
...cousin of ex-OPA Boss Chester), whose four Springfield, Mass., newspapers have been on strike since last fall, crashed a picket line to deliver copies of his strike-crippled Daily News, wound up in police court. Publisher Bowles had the enterprise to pilot a delivery truck himself, lacked the foresight to carry a driver's license. Fine...
Gustave describes how Kurt, the SS leader, "raised his gun and sighted it carefully at me. I tried not to look, but soon I had to raise my eyes. The tip of the foresight was a fraction below the level of his puckered eye, part of which showed in the aperture of the backsight. He was aiming at my throat. I had had them do that to me before in the camps. They aimed at you and stroked the trigger. For them it was like love making. They knew that you and they had the same thing in mind...