Word: omen
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...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...
...messenger's heavy briefcases fell off the rack into his lap. It was addressed to "His Britannic Majesty's Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs." Since Eden will certainly hold that job if the Conservatives win the general election three weeks hence, Tories thought it a favorable omen...
...General Matthew Ridgway and his wife to a royal luncheon, at which Empress Nagato set the conversational tone with a little story. The day the treaty was signed, a white crane had alighted in a treetop on the palace grounds. The Japanese took this, she said, as a good omen for peace...