Word: forethoughtful
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...stunned crowd went back to its form charts and tried to figure just how it had overlooked those South American visitors. The Laurel band, to its credit, recovered first. "Let us all stand," stuttered an announcer as the band broke into Gloria al Bravo Pueblo. Someone had had the forethought to supply the music of the Venezuelan national anthem...
...included in the compilation are the personal notes of Presidential Adviser James Byrnes, Secretary of State Stettinius and Ambassador Harriman. Some of Harriman's official reports are, however, in the Yalta record and are notable for their clarity and forethought...
...wheels and see a fortune. Dublin Paper Merchant Harvey Du Cros, father of three famed bicycle racers, needed only to see his sons beaten by a man on Dunlop tires before he set to work. He promptly organized a tire company, persuaded Dunlop to join him, and with classic forethought predicted in his prospectus: "The pneumatic tyre will be almost indispensable for ladies and persons with delicate nerves...
...speak for the Tory rebels. An ex-Guardsman who is seldom heard on the floor of the House, he was stern and resolved. "We speak in sorrow," he said. "In this piece of paper we have got all that is left of 80 years of British endeavor, thought and forethought." He complained of U.S. pressure: "For many years we have had a little American lamb bleating in Cairo, not helping and if anything hindering in most things. Well, he has got his way . . . We are becoming weary of our responsibilities . . . our burdens are becoming too irksome...
...Forethought & Combat. Officially, Douglas calls its new A4D the Skyhawk, but within the company, the plane is called the "Heinemann Hot-Rod," after Designer Edward H. Heinemann, 46, boss engineer at Douglas' El Segundo plant and builder of such combat work horses as World War II's twin-engine A26 (now B26) and Korea's single-engine Navy AD Skyraider. For years Heinemann has been arguing that U.S. planes are too heavy, too expensive and too complicated. They are victims of what he calls "tack-hammer engineering-tacking extra things onto airplanes that, with a little forethought...