Word: impendingness
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For weeks an aura of impending mayhem hovered over Miami Beach. Residents were openly jittery about claims that up to 10,000 militant protesters would storm the city during the Democratic National Convention. As it happened, the feared invasion was more carnival than confrontation. Fewer than 4,000 "non-delegates...
Tension over the impending credentials fight began to mount again early yesterday. Senator Edmund S. Muskie, who has played a mysterious role of equivocation since his arrival here, called upon his fellow candidates to meet with him at 1 p.m. to work toward a compromise, thereby avoiding a convention floor...
WO YEARS AGO, The New York Times characterized Cambridge as a traditional Old World city. Since then, however, much of the local flavor has made way for Baskin Robbins's 31 Flavors and other nation-wide chains. The impending John F. Kennedy Library Center on Boylston St. in the present...
For once, Henry Kissinger had taken special care to inform the Japanese of his forthcoming China visit. Mending fences in Tokyo, he had generously apologized for last year's shokku when the Japanese were not told of President Nixon's impending visit to the Chinese capital. "We failed...
He cited Fidel Castro's impending Rumanian tour in late May and the need to prepare for a party conference coming up in July, but the Japanese are unconvinced. They suspect that Ceausescu, who talked to a dissident Japanese politician in Bucharest early last month, simply decided that it...