Word: omens
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...born in 1759, in an Ayrshire clay cottage built by his tenant-farming father. Within a week, the roof blew in on little Rab (no one ever called him "Bobbie"). He was too young to interpret the omen, but father Burns had a flair for failure. At nine, Rab was taken out of the little parish school and put to work on the farm. When he died at 37, it was the rheumatic heart acquired in youth not drink, that killed him. He once described his life as "an uphill gallop from the cradle to the grave...
...speech, he faced an audience of about 700 in the National Press Club. "Our talks," he read hopefully, "are enabling us to understand each other's point of view." Was there a suspicion that he had come to the U.S. to talk of appeasement? "That word of ill omen . . . That is not true. We know from our own bitter experience that appeasement does not pay." Then he spoke the one emotion-charged passage in his speech: "You may be certain that in fair weather or foul, where the Stars & Stripes fly in Korea, the British flag will fly beside...
...seventh day out, "never go more than 25 leagues [about 100 miles] from land." But the nearest islands at that point were the Azores, 600 miles to the north. A few days later the Santa Maria, Niña and Pinta ran into an oceanful of good omen. Soft breezes, another boatswain bird and a sea of floating weed with a live crab still enmeshed in it pleased everyone, and "the best sailors went ahead to sight land first." Actually, the lonely little formation had not yet reached mid-Atlantic: boatswain birds wander hundreds of miles from land...
...moved to Socorro and the rainmaking studies are going full blast around her, it has been noticed that her bird looks more like a duck. It holds its head back on its shoulders in a way doves seldom do. Dr. Workman considers this apparent metamorphosis a favorable omen...
From former Home Affairs Minister Paik Sung Wook, a pious Buddhist who until last week ran South Korea's police force, came word of an omen which he felt blessed the republic's cause. The omen: the year 1950 in the Korean calendar is 4283. Reversed, 4283 reads 3824. In Korean 3824 is pronounced "Sampal isa" which also means "No more 38th...