Word: omen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...best omen was a new, realistic tone in the Israeli government. In the past six months indiscriminate ingathering has been curbed (TIME, Dec. 3), the currency devalued to make foreign investment attractive, the doctrinaire dogma of full employment abandoned, and all but the most necessary public works postponed. An old slogan is again heard: "Em Braira," meaning no alternative...
...began the second Elizabethan Age, and in its name the people of Britain saw a good omen...
...Omen. In Coopersville, Mich., when the local chamber of commerce gathered for lunch to hear two Office of Price Stabilization officials discuss price ceilings, part of the restaurant ceiling fell...
...convergence of two supposedly different viewpoints (that of Parsons and that of Sorokin) is a very good omen for emergence and development of Harvard School in Sociology," Sorokin said...
...have in this country a minority in a magnificent situation and a majority in a desperate situation. And Plaza's government, it's for the minority, no?" He calls his followers indefensos, "the defenseless ones." They call him "the saint." The indefensos took it as a good omen that Guevara's electoral triumph last week occurred on the day he became 40, minimum age to run for the presidency in next June's election...