Word: omened
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...whose five sons died young, left to no one their remarkable gusto for such a role. One of Sarah's more enterprising daughters formed a liaison with a "low poet" of the Restoration named Congreve, and the son she bore died a hopeless drunkard. This was an omen perhaps of the centuries the family would lie fallow until another Churchill, half American by blood (great-great-great-great-great-great-grandson of John and Sarah), would rise to rally and astonish the Western world...
...investors began to pay more heed to good news at home rather than bad news from abroad, the Dow-Jones industrials jumped 5.62 points in the first trading session after Labor Day, one of the biggest gains in months. Wall Streeters took the upswing as a bright omen: the market after Labor Day has often forecast the trend for months to come; e.g., the wartime bull market ended in the week after Labor Day in 1946, the Eisenhower bull market started in late September 1953. The average closed the week at 506.76 v. 502.04 the week before...
...technique re-created these spirits of him amazingly ... I can't but write this comfortable excitement caused by your impressive recital." Thus a Japanese music fan paid his tribute to one of the most widely traveled of U.S. performers: 30-year-old Pianist Eugene Istomin (rhymes with hissed omen). In one way or another, critics at home and abroad have been saying much the same thing about Pianist Istomin for the last decade. Already approaching full maturity at a time when many a young pianist is still feeling out technique, Istomin again carries his musical reputation abroad this week...
Lightning flashed, a clap of thunder shattered the air and the lights in a crowded courthouse at Blois (pop. 26,774) flickered out. The superstitious in the audience considered this manifestation something of an omen. There on trial for murder stood straight-haired, sloe-eyed Denise Labbe, 30, and her lover, Jacques Algarron, 26. Ever since their arrest more than a year ago, neighbors and newspaper readers had known the pair as "the Possessed," but cool, handsome Jacques and his pale paramour looked anything but demonic as they sat, clad in black, listening impassively to the charges. The daughter...
McKay's way of campaigning was to call Folsom "one of the foremost supporters of the N.A.A.C.P." His victory was a grim political omen that would put little heart into the beleaguered moderates of the Deep South...