Word: forethought
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...numbed and thrilled at Elwood. Before him last week, in the Memorial Park near his wife's home at Rushville, were 10,000 townsmen and countryfolk who simply wanted a look at a candidate whom many of them already knew. He could talk to them without forethought, manuscript, microphones; and he talked at his easy best...
...18th Earl of Moray, a decorated War veteran whose behavior was such that British press associations at first suppressed the story altogether and even London correspondents cabled only garbled versions. What happened was that Lord Moray boasted of having "married an American girl in Paris," explaining: "Through the careful forethought of my mother-in-law, I can therefore get a divorce in Scotland or America!" From this the Noble Lord switched into totally irrelevant remarks about New York police officials, suddenly interrupting himself to say: "If the Leader of the House will excuse me, I should like...
Worry is a dissociation and deflection of attention, a confusion of mental focus by anxious concern for incidentals and neglect of the essential element." It is also "deliberation turned toxic." Most Oriental languages have no word for such a typically modern state of mind. Although "forethought is essential to intelligent living, it is only when apprehension is ruled by nervous anxiety . . . that worry injures us." Brooding, it follows, is "meditation made sick by fear." Confronted by situations that we do not know how to face, or do not want to face, our concepts of the kind of action possible...
...questions for decision faced a far from bewildered jury in Paris last week as the "Stavisky Trial" opened at last in the Palace of Justice. The jurors, briskly selected by a red-robed judge, were not bewildered because all aspects of the trial had been listed with forethought and precision on a sort of "score card" for the jury's special benefit. The defense lawyers, temperamental as prima donnas, opened with shouts for more chairs which soon reached the pitch of shrieks...
When Newshawk McDowell arrived by automobile at Castel Gandolfo, the Pope's summer snuggery, "I left my hand satchel in the car. It looked too professional. I had the forethought, however, to take out my letter from Cardinal Hayes, and on top of this, fastening it with a clip, I put my New York Times calling card. It was identification. I was all alone. I was not afraid, oh, no. But I might faint or become ill. I knew no Italian and no one there was likely to know any English. And no one there knew me. Folded...