Word: impendingness
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Vientiane was hardly surprised. For days the capital had whispered of an impending coup, and even the Communist Pathet Lao radio had broadcast a warning twelve hours before Ma's move that there would be an uprising. The reason for all the confident predictions was that right-wingers within...
There, exactly, was the rub. The Fourth Amendment bans only "unreasonable" searches and seizures, and the reasonableness of actions connected with impending nuclear attack can scarcely be compared with the reasonableness of a burglary of a psychiatrist's office more than two months after the Pentagon papers had leaked...
Although shuttle service to Radcliffe is a perennial suggestion, the impending decision to act was boosted by a host of complaints from men--primarily athletes--assigned to live at Radcliffe.
BUT THERE are other noblemen desiring the kingdom of Corinth: Paidoboron, the weather-beaten visionary of the North, who reads in the stars impending doom; and Koprophoros, the mystic Asiatic, who suggests finally that reason alone is not good enough in Jason's absurd world, and that men cannot deny...
That was a frail peg on which to hang the contention that Nixon did not know. Obviously, the Mitchell version runs counter to the voluminous testimony by Dean, Mitchell's onetime protégé at the Justice Department and the President's fired counsel. Dean had testified...