Word: omened
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Seizing on Buie as a good omen, Knox's crew last week invited him to join their ship. He was, after all, the luckiest swab-by in Uncle Sam's Navy...
...Tenn., home town of Sergeant Alvin York, one of World War I's top heroes, was a little brighter. Teetotaler York, 71, crippled by a stroke in 1954, reported that his health is improving, allowed that he has even felt a yen to go hunting again. Another good omen: he has not heard recently from federal revenooers about the $85,442 income tax they have asked for-a kingsize slice of the royalties York got from his movie biography, produced in 1941. "They claim I owe 'em so much," drawled the old soldier...
...campaign by the Republicans for 21 vacant seats in the National Assembly scheduled to be filled in byelections this fall. Even if the Republicans won all 21 seats, they would not dent the Democrats' gerrymandered Assembly majority (410 to 170), but a good Republican showing might be an omen for 1961 general elections. Apparently Menderes thought so too: last week, after a bitter parliamentary debate, the Democrats used their safe majority to ram through the Assembly a measure postponing all byelections for a year...
...though the King's new affability did not accomplish it, all Belgium took it as a good omen that with his return to Belgium the brouhaha about Prince Albert's marriage showed signs of dying down. At issue was the fact that if Pope John XXIII performed the marriage at the Vatican, there could be no civil ceremony first, as Belgian law requires. Reason: since the Vatican is a sovereign state, it considers its own service to have civil status as well. "In a gesture of particular solicitude toward Belgium." the Pope last week helped to pacify...
...civilization have always stood guard and always died in the end. The scene of this modern tale of horror is Africa, where the Roman watch fell to the Vandals 1,500 years ago, and where today the British guard is falling to nationalism. Whatever its accuracy as an omen, By the North Gate is one of the year's most chilling novels. It is as free of sentimentality as a native spear, as relentless in its bitter logic as simple hate...