Word: omens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Unhealthy Omen...
...soldier offered me his shovel. I took it and unconsciously traced the characters "Father" and "Mother" in the soft sand. Then I erased them and wrote the names of my wife and children. I touched the good-luck omen my mother had given me and I thought of her prayers for my safety. . . . I murmured: "I don't want to die. Can nothing help me?" I put my hand on my heart as though to stop its pounding and told myself that this was not fear. But I was apologizing to myself. For that's what...
...Colorado Rockies. All U.S. weathermen could say was: "If there is any good explanation for such weather at this time of the year, we'd like to have it." The ancients would not have been at such a loss. They would probably have seen in it an omen of world-shaking events...
...luck struck early. On the very first day, Napoleon fell off his horse-a bad omen. The horses got colic from eating green crops, and in ten days one third of the cavalry was lost. By the time they reached Vilna, 50.000 men were lost from sickness alone. The Russians fought sharp rearguard actions almost to Moscow, stood at Borodino, killed 25,000 Frenchmen. Having entered most of the first cities of Europe except Moscow, the soldiers were eager to sweep into Moscow. But the Russians burned the town as they entered...
TURKEY As the late afternoon sun fell gleaming on the domes and minarets of Istanbul one day this week, a bird of ill omen winged in from the west. It hovered above the city for a moment, then settled down at the airport. From the plane stepped dapper old Franz von Papen, German Ambassador to Turkey and the man whom Adolf Hitler expects to open for him the door to the rich Middle East, Germany's dreamland for half a century...