Word: haruspex
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...Seoul each haruspex plied his specialty. There were no packs of cards to read ("That seems awfully amateurish to us," said Asano) or crystal balls ("That's a fake"). Instead, the astrologers cast horoscopes, the bamboo-stick men studied hoigaku, the science of directions. Asano's specialty is physiognomy or face reading (he is the author of the Japanese bestseller Faces Never Tell a Lie). Consulting recent photographs of President Nixon he found that the space between eyes and eyebrows had grown auspiciously longer; meanwhile, once cold eyes had assumed remarkable warmth. George McGovern's mouth, however...
...Alfred Winslow Jones, father of Wall Street's current investment sensation, the hedge fund (whose profit-at-high-risk philosophy aims at taking advantage of both upward and downward swings of the market). Touches of humorous erudition are sprinkled throughout. A regular monthly column, for example, is called "Haruspex," for the Roman soothsay ers who divined the future by poking through the entrails of sacrificial animals...
Thus the CRIMSON haruspex will examine the entrails of departed students to suggest courses for the coming term. The most basic courses--Economics 1, Mathematics 1, Government 1--are evident even to the untutored eye. But many less obvious, although not obscure offerings might be a boon to those who seek outside their own field for edification. It is these our seer has descried...
Reading Harriman's 1956 budget message, Republican Heck suddenly leaped to his feet and cried: "Haruspex!" Some of his associates thought of answering "Gesundheit," but others quietly went to the dictionary. Heck soon had Albany reporters flipping through Webster's, after he and Senate Majority Leader Walter Mahoney issued a statement that said, in part: "If, as Governor Harriman seems to infer, Republican clairvoyance was required last year to determine that he did not need the $127 million tax increase which he demanded, our forecast has proven far more accurate than the divinations of the Democrat haruspex, which...
...reporters soon found out, were diviners, usually Etruscans, who deduced the will of the gods and foretold the future chiefly by examining the entrails of sacrificed animals, from birds to bulls. With a word, Speaker Heck had at last aroused public interest in the $127 million error of Haruspex Harriman...