Word: portend
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...combination of reasons, mainly the strength of the league, it would be unjust to blithely predict that the Crimson will breeze to another second place in their perennial position behind Yale. The prospects portend a tough, but hopeful, season in the I.A.B...
...Five-Year-Planner Mikhail Pervukhin, who voted against Khrushchev during last June's leadership showdown, was shipped off even before the elections to be Soviet Ambassador to East Germany. Question for Premier Bulganin, who also guessed wrong last summer: If one nomination meant East Germany, what did 15 portend...
...some undocumented headlines with exotic Script Girl Sonali Das Gupta. Sonali's husband is now threatening to jettison her. For the same reason, Indian officials once indicated that they believed Rossellini had abused their country's hospitality, if not Sonali's. Did all this ruckus portend a divorce for the Rossellinis? Snorted paunchy Roberto: "Absolute nonsense!" Burbled Ingrid: "Isn't any wife in love with her husband happy to have him home after such a long absence...
...went the Vice President of the U.S. on a two-point assignment. Face to face with Asian leaders, Richard Nixon elucidated the U.S. position that collective security is wiser than neutralism. To anxious allies, he conveyed high-level assurance that the Geneva discussions between the U.S. and Red China portend no basic change in this country's attitude toward Asia...
Samuel H. Beer, professor of Government, Seymour Harris '20, professor of Economics, and Holt B. Westerfield, instructor in Government, all agreed that, while the Kentucky Senator's victory was a distinct letdown to Stevenson supporters, it did not portend a trend in the Democratic party...