Word: omened
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...employers such as General Foods and Dole. In 1984 he started a business that diagnosed the problems of sick house plants by mail and wangled his first bit of free publicity when he appeared on Good Morning America to promote it. That company soon wilted (Was there an omen there regarding free p.r.?), forcing him to look for something else...
...Omen Shelters in New York City are reporting 30% more requests for lodging than last year and a record number of homeless families because of the U.S. economic slump...
...Omen A Scottish safari-park chimp pickpocketed a warden's cell phone and was detected only when he began placing shrieking prank calls to staff members...
...Omen An American dream researcher reports that people with right-wing political views have more frequent and violent nightmares than their liberal counterparts...
...summer, as the overnight-camp and dorm-room markets constitute our equivalent of the Christmas retail season. It’s not difficult to imagine myself as one of the young men sifting through racks of twin-extra-long sheets; I distinctly remember taking it as a good omen that my sheet pattern bore the name “Harvard.” Now, aside from the “Cambridge” quilt pattern, omens of any kind are few and far between in the bedding department...