Word: omens
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Ghoneim, wise in such matters, was not discouraged, and eventually he uncovered the entrance of a second tunnel. Unlike the first, it was not barren. Ranged along it were the doorways of 120 separate chambers, some of them containing jars of grain and other foodstuffs. This was a good omen; the soul of a Pharaoh was usually supplied with alabaster-packaged rations...
Wagner's election was hailed by the New deal wing of the Democratic party as a bright omen for next year's congressional elections and the 1956 presidential campaign...
...really bad omen for the Democrats is that the population of suburbs is growing while that of cities is decreasing. Democrats who move to the suburbs (and particularly the women) are inclined to lose the faith, Mitchell admitted. A fervent Democrat's wife, he said, may agree with her husband's views, but she finds that she is not invited to the right places in suburbia if she sounds like a Democrat. Said Mitchell: "Very frequently when she was torn this way, she went along with her neighbors and voted Republican. After all, she had to live with...
...Trojan Horse, presented second, is the better of the pair, because the audience is never aware it is hearing poetry, not prose. The play opens with the discovery of the Greek horse outside the walls of Troy. The Trojan populous, wanting to believe the horse is a good omen, refuses to heed the few who warn against...
...wedding day is rainy, a lucky omen in Brazil, and the wedding night so blissful that Author Machado slyly warns the reader: "Don't worry, I do not intend to describe it; human language does not possess forms proper to so great a task." Lucky in love, Bento is also lucky at law, partly because good friend Ezekiel shunts cases his way. And when Capitu bears a son, Bento insists on naming the child Ezekiel...