Word: portentions
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...Margaret Ann Goldwater, 17, beauteous debutante daughter of the Arizona Senator. A captivating campaigner in her own right-she has twice been elected president of her class at suburban Phoenix's Judson School-Queen Peggy will be crowned by her father, who may or may not see political portent in passing on a title held last year by Lynda Bird Johnson...
...long memory of man, the fly-by-night, leather-winged bat has seldom been anything but a creature of ill repute-a companion of witches and devils and a portent of disaster. Though naturalists like to argue that bats are humanity's benefactors because they gobble vast quantities of insects, rare is the man who even bothers to listen. Soon, even the naturalists may moderate their enthusiasm, for the U.S. Public Health Service has produced scientific backing for the bat's repulsive reputation...
That will climax seven days of feasting, since in Laos, death is thought to be a release, and a portent of happier times...
...threshold of great problems." A cautious spokesman for the Church of England said, "His Holiness expressed to the Archbishop his great desire to increase brotherly feelings among all men, and especially among all Christians." But as the Archbishop had observed in advance: "Talking trivialities is in itself a portent of great significance. The pleasantries may be pleasantries about profundities." He seemed relieved that the interview had been private: "I am quite happy there were no pictures. All sorts of things might have been read into them-odious comparisons made...
Slapped Face. In yet another gloomy portent for the future, De Gaulle-who this week celebrates his yoth birthday-was finding the Fifth Republic's hand-tailored governmental apparatus increasingly balky and unreliable. In the National Assembly, despite their awareness that they would surely be outvoted, opposition Deputies introduced a motion of censure protesting De Gaulle's cherished bill to create a French nuclear force. Even the trial of the men who led last January's right-wing insurrection in Algeria backfired when the nine-man military tribunal granted "provisional liberty" to ex-Paratrooper Pierre Lagaillarde...