Word: omened
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...thinks it is doomed. It was a bad omen when I bought a DVD player, relegating the old VHS box to a lower shelf?but at least it was still used when I wanted to record E.R. or a football game. Things got worse last week when I unplugged it and moved it to the spare room, a dusty purgatory for appliances on their way out of the loop. Then I set up the gleaming new Panasonic DMR-E20 recordable DVD player, a device designed to kill off the VCR. Instead of using videotape, it burns the images directly...
...Omen The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission took most of its website offline "to make sure it did not contain information that could be helpful to terrorists...
...Omen A man was ejected from an American Airlines Los Angeles-to-Dallas flight after he snatched the cabin microphone to lead other passengers in prayer...
...although local officials did not consider the speech a great omen for improved community relations, they said that Summers had started off on the right foot, with moves such as meeting with the City Council and personally attending the graduation of the Harvard-sponsored Summer Academy at local Cambridge Rindge and Latin School...
...appreciation of the differences and fundamental similarities between the various genres of poems he performed. The last two lines of verse Ferry read (from a Babylonian poem, “Prayer to the Gods of the Night”) were: “Establish the truth in the ritual omen, / In the offered lamb establish the truth.” And indeed, these words, in their haunting beauty and characteristic poignance, marked a fitting close to the evening...