Word: portentously
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Congress, agitation for reconsideration of the draft is growing--often instigated by Congressmen, such as Rep. Joseph P. Adabbo (D-N.Y.), who five years ago were on the other side of the fence. Even more significant, however, is the apparent eagerness of many students to accept a second portent of a growing militarism: for as most major newspapers have formed the habit of noting. Reserve Officer Training Corps (ROTC) programs, and other military-funded scholarship plans, are experiencing a renaissance at a number of major campuses. The reason seems fairly clear. Perhaps at Harvard, where post-graduate work...
...somehow it worked, back in the early days of talking pictures, and damned if it does not look like it is going to work again, in a supposedly more sophisticated age. The ultimate triumph of special effects over common sense? A weird sexual charge, heavy in portent, reassuringly innocent in presentation? A comic strip rendering of a myth dredged up out of the collective unconscious and splashed so boldly on the screen that the audience is awed into acceptance by its sheer audacity? Or is it, finally, just an act of primal showmanship, a Barnum-like invitation to admit...
Compatriot--it sounded so musical yet so forlorn. I shrink from recalling that greeting because it hangs in my memory like a portent of betrayal. I hope it really meant that hope is possible. Already the man had culled suspicion in a stolidly bourgeois farming couple as he pressed for workers' movements, and in a spurt of desperation and elation, invoked Che Guevara's name. I guess he'll learn...
...containing inflation on a worldwide basis, whatever carrots and sticks may be used? Few of the bankers were optimistic. Franz Ulrich, chairman of the Deutsche Bank A.G. of Düsseldorf, pointed to a 16% rise in world commodity prices from last year's lows as a portent of things to come. Irving Friedman, Senior Vice President of Citibank, argued that modern inflation has been high and persistent because of fundamental changes in societies around the world, which have increased the demand for goods and services far beyond the ability of the world economy to supply. Governments, Friedman said...
...opening event was a portent for the rest of the meet as the Crimson medley relay team beat a Princeton quartet that ranks among the best in the East. Backstrokers Duncan Pyle and Bruce Kone fought almost evenly over their 110-yard segment, but breaststroker Ted Fullerton began to edge away from Tiger Charles Hector...