Word: impendingness
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May had been unseasonably moist and June unreasonably cool, but this week New York City's 7,795,471 residents finally read unmistakable signposts of an impending weather change - and with it a threat of sociological change. Shortened were Manhattan's winter skyscraper shadows; the tall towers of...
Gloomily surveying a horde of swarming hopefuls entered in Tennessee's impending primary elections, Nashville's WSM-TV and WLAC-TV have imposed strict limits on the total air time to be sold to any one candidate. WSM-TV ruled that the eight contestants for the Democratic nomination...
In the six minutes that followed, 67-year-old Charles de Gaulle, who knows how to make an effective short speech, briskly ticked off the awesome array of problems that bedevil France-rebellion in Algeria, strained relations with Tunisia, impending economic catastrophe, an unworkable system of government. In a burst...
Kanz blamed impending high school graduation as the cause of the walkout. "Some of the workers, especially the seniors, started to cause trouble last week. They didn't care for the job, and tried to persuade other workers to leave with them."
He had always made his terms clear. The idol of France at one of the crises in its life, he had served an ultimatum upon his countrymen: if they wanted him to take part again in the game of French politics, they must change the rules. Specifically, they must turn...