Word: portend
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Taft men had been expected to win some of the 22 seats in the national convention delation from Kansas, Ike's home state. Their victory at Hays, in Ikeman Carlson's own bailiwick, did not portend a Taft sweep of the Kansas delegation, but it was a sharp illustration of what politicians mean when they say the Taft campaign is "organized...
What did the Red buildup portend? There are two plausible deductions: 1) that the enemy expects a smashing U.N. offensive-if the truce talks at Panmunjom fail-and is readying his defenses against it; 2) that he is mounting an offensive of his own. Despite the talk at Panmunjom and in the world's capitals, all was not entirely quiet on the Korean front...
...poor showing seemed to portend a lack of fervor toward the states' rights cause. "We must not," Byrd warned, "be lulled into a sense of false security if there is some delay in taking up these [civil rights] bills," which he called a "devil's brew." As his tie, ablaze with a Stars & Bars design, fluttered in the wet breeze, Byrd charged Truman with trying to "usurp state police power" by setting up a special FBI for the South, and with following "the primrose path to socialism...
These late eclipses in the sun and moon portend no good to us: though the wisdom of nature can reason it thus and thus, yet nature finds itself scourged by the sequent effects: love cools, friendship falls off, brothers divide; in cities, mutinies; in countries, discord; in palaces, treason; and the bond cracked 'twixt sun and father. King Ledr, Act 1, scene...
...Communist world, what might Malenkov's succession portend? During last fall's Revolution anniversary, he gave a clue. "What," he said oratorically, "does history teach us? The First World War . . . brought about the victory of the Great October Socialist Revolution in our country. The Second World War brought Popular Democratic (i.e., Soviet) regimes in Central and Southeast Europe, the victory of the great Chinese people. Can there be any doubt that a Third World War will become the grave for world capitalism...