Word: foresights
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Granting General and Mrs. Hoge so much vision and foresight reminds us all of Joan of Arc's dream before her departure for Chinon. We believe that it is undue, and feel sure that even the General will not like it, as he must be aware that a Fairbanks resident, Donald MacDonald Sr., has worked the project over in every shape and form for 13 years, thus acquiring the flattering title of "Father of the International Highway...
...lack of voters yesterday was probably due less to apathy than to lack of foresight. People love to read that three Jap planes were shot down, so they buy War Bonds. But they may be overlooking how, where, and when their money is being used. If we don't use the right to vote, which we are fighting to keep, and use it conscientiously, all the War Bonds in the world will be a poor weapon...
...diet of canned food and quinine, but there was not even a native woman within miles of the place. Early in May he stationed himself at a secret air base in northeast Australia from which Allied bombers were pounding the Japs to the north. He had his reward for foresight when he was able to file his battle dispatches from the very shores of the Coral...
Japan's ordained sphere. Less often, less pointedly in the middle '30s, when Japan was shaping the final blows to come, did he and other military spokesmen refer to the U.S. as an enemy. But the U.S. never lapsed from their memories and their plans. With delicate foresight and precision, they geared their machine of conquest to strike in any order that world events dictated. As it happened, China was first, the U.S. second in timing. Russia was third-but only in timing. In the sphere which Seishiro Itagaki marked out for himself, Russia was always first...
...real scandal was that nobody, before Pearl Harbor, had the combined foresight and strength of character to haul Jesse over the White House coals-and Jesse had forehandedly had his penny-pinching notions approved by the President. The U.S. was caught so short that somebody should have been impeached-but no one could put his finger on whom to impeach. Jesse Jones was rubber king by default, not by delegation of powers...