Word: portent
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...with two concrete reminders of the ever-growing and evolving role of women at Harvard: the gate through which most of us will pass every day and the booklet which all of us should read and enjoy as a sign of what was and is, and as a portent of things to come...
...stands on the balcony of the Casa Rosada in Buenos Aires, the night humid with portent, the masses chanting her name, as she sings her calculated confession. "And as for fortune, and as for fame,/ I never invited them in,/ Though they seemed to the world they were all I desired...
...Palestinian "security" forces have, ironically, contributed to a most insecure situation. An arms build-up of this magnitude in such a volatile region of the world is a frightening portent. In countries which are still battling to put a lid on the hazards posed by unconventional warfare, there is hardly a need for thousands of extra automatic weapons, least of all in unpredictable, unaccountable and untrustworthy hands. The new cache of arms also acts as a continual threat, politically if not militarily, to Israel's position of strength and stability in a region with no other truly democratic states...
There is a far greater significance to the surprising leftist-rightist handshake which has lingered and become a slow dance, even as Kenan Professor of Government Harvey C. Mansfield '53 looks on in silent disapproval like a curmudgeon civics teacher drafted to chaperone the junior prom. It is a portent of the future. And anyone who is frightened by the religious right had better pay attention...
...what looked to be a portent of good things to come, it spanked Columbia, a team given a preseason ranking of 13 by Soccer America...