Word: omens
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...double its previous popular vote in last year's local elections. One of the neoFascists' major campaign issues this spring is a demand for a new constitution establishing a strong presidential system. Italians worried about the growing appeal of neo-Fascism take it as a bad omen that the country has not had a premature election since 1924-the year Benito Mussolini's Fascists swept to power...
Elliott's absence may be a bad omen for the Crimson as it enters a stretch of six games in two weeks. Elliott has the flu, and an epidemic would be disastrous in the next two weeks, when Harvard faces the second and third place ECAC teams, B.U. and Cornell...
...psychologist named Karen Cooper, was protesting the government's handling of an urban renewal project in London's historic Covent Garden market, not Britain's joining the Common Market. But on a day devoted to symbolic ceremony, the affair could be viewed as an unhappy omen of the sort of political accident that can still upset the plans of Britain and its partners on their way to market in Europe...
...beginning of a new era. Generally it is supposed to be a time of timidity and meanness. It may turn out to be good for international relations, but it is not recommended for marriage. Astrologers in Hong Kong say that the rat is a bad omen for connubial bliss, so unusually large numbers of Chinese couples there have recently been marrying in order to beat the deadline next month...
...first of the Manhattan theaters being built in new office skyscrapers has opened, and it is a house of good omen. The American Place Theater is a triumph of spare, tactful architectural design and welcome proof of the theater's knack for survival even in periods of adversity...