Word: omen
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...really bad omen for the Democrats is that the population of suburbs is growing while that of cities is decreasing. Democrats who move to the suburbs (and particularly the women) are inclined to lose the faith, Mitchell admitted. A fervent Democrat's wife, he said, may agree with her husband's views, but she finds that she is not invited to the right places in suburbia if she sounds like a Democrat. Said Mitchell: "Very frequently when she was torn this way, she went along with her neighbors and voted Republican. After all, she had to live with...
...Trojan Horse, presented second, is the better of the pair, because the audience is never aware it is hearing poetry, not prose. The play opens with the discovery of the Greek horse outside the walls of Troy. The Trojan populous, wanting to believe the horse is a good omen, refuses to heed the few who warn against...
...wedding day is rainy, a lucky omen in Brazil, and the wedding night so blissful that Author Machado slyly warns the reader: "Don't worry, I do not intend to describe it; human language does not possess forms proper to so great a task." Lucky in love, Bento is also lucky at law, partly because good friend Ezekiel shunts cases his way. And when Capitu bears a son, Bento insists on naming the child Ezekiel...
...lunar new year and, in accordance with age-old custom, peasant folk were cracking open the hard little Korean walnuts to foretell the future. No matter that Korea lay devastated by war, there was still a future. If the kernels came out whole, that was a good omen. On the other hand, if they came out broken, that was bad, but not hopeless...
...good omen in Mayer's achievement was the breaking down of the blank and sterile opposition of the Gaullists to all participation in government. But there were still no Gaullists in the cabinet. By threatening to withdraw their voting support at any time they plainly hoped to extract further concessions from Mayer. Looking over the new government, a Frenchman cracked: "It is Pinay without Pinay and De Gaulle without De Gaulle...