Word: omens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...year-old Kerr Eby, now painting for the Marines. It was a pencil drawing of weary, bent men on the march under a sky filled with a ponderous black cloud. Artist Eby says that the cloud hung in the sky for three days; the Germans thought it was an omen...
...accepted a bad check drawn on the Lincoln County Bank, which used to be right across the street until it closed ten years ago. For Luck. In San Francisco, Tharn-midsbe L. Praghustspondgifeem, who was known as Edward L. Hayes before he started building combinations of good-omen words, petitioned the Superior Court for permission to change his name to Miswaldpornghuestficset Balstemdrigne-shofwintpluasjof Wrandvaistplondqesky-crufemgeish. Ruble Trouble. In Manhattan, Mrs. Tatiana Jemtchoujnikov sued to recover $24,600 on a loan of 50,000 Tsarist rubles her husband made in 1918 to Jacques Zolotnitzky, who offered to settle for one-millionth...
...before they started out. Conselheiro's followers, the jagunços, had dug trenches, spied out the land, sharpened scythes and cattle prongs, repaired their antique muskets, even built crossbows, and prayed ceaselessly. As the expedition started, Moreira Cesar had an attack of epilepsy. It was a bad omen. His troops drove back Conselheiro's outposts, rushed on madly until they were in sight of Canudos...
...front, from the Dnieper's mouth to the Carpathians, four Red Armies hacked their way forward. Their prime objective: the web of railroads over which the enemy could be reinforced-or retreat. This week, all but one inferior escape line into Rumania had been cut. Birds of ill omen hovered over the fringes of the German-held steppe -air transports were dropping fuel and supplies to stalled trucks and tanks...
...OMEN - Lawrence Treaf -Duell, Sloan and Pearce ($2). The sudden death of a cook turns the rural week end of Psychologist Carl Wayward and his wife into a murder investigation that involves extrasensory perception, precognitive dreams, psychiatry and unadorned violence in its suspenseful course. Not altogether convincing, but notable for crispness and novelty...