Word: portentous
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...Midwest's farmers, whose corn crop is dangerously late because spring floods delayed planting, the Chicago Tribune noted a portent of disaster. Despite the heat, the purple martins had left for the South ahead of schedule-a sure sign of early frost...
Doors of high portent open unto...
Recoil with a vengeance came in the 50 yard sprint, an ominous portent for the final relay outcome. The Green's Howe with first, and Thalheimer taking third, sandwiched Bill MacVicker who made it a wirephoto finish largely on the strength of his turns...
This week's Buffalo teachers' strike for a minimum annual salary of $2,400 is but another clear portent that the American public, which spends seven billion dollars per year for liquor, will have to lend far greater support to its school system than the annual 2.5 billion it now sees fit to part with. No one was surprised last week when the United States Commissioner of Education stated that American education's paramount problem, and one that can be solved only by better salaries, is to improve the quality of public school teaching...
...TIME has not lost its sense of humor. The "tongue-in-cheek" way that TIME presents some of the problems of the world makes it more possible for one to consider them sanely; for, unlike most newspapers, TIME never becomes hysterical over any situation, no matter of what grave portent. If one accepts a crisis by looking for whatever humor that crisis may contain, one is surely more apt to reach a sensible, sane and logical conclusion...