Word: portentousness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...magic number will be no great portent of major shifts in policy: it will not be a reflection of the Strauch Committee's recommendations...
...portent, the fallen oak may not be in the same league as the events that the Historian Livy claimed presaged disaster in ancient Rome: swamps turned the color of blood, chalk rained from the skies, a spear on a statue moved of its own accord, an ox talked and a child in the womb cried "Hurrah!" Still, several Michigan newspapers carried a photo of the splintered tree with the caption "Warning from Above...
...more honest of the two candidates, while only 11% thought Metzenbaum was. "In essence, that was the ball game," said Hart. Metzenbaum, who will almost certainly support Glenn in the upcoming race, is disillusioned about the low tone of the campaign and sees his defeat as a dreary portent: "We're going to lose some good politicians because of Watergate. The price of being in politics today is just too damn high...
...Ugly American. 1963. A portent of things to come, this George Englund film featured Marlon Brando as a thoroughly American diplomat caught in the paradoxes of American policy in Southeast Asia. Dated but worthy. CH. 4 11:30 p.m. Color...
...Kohoutek People" at the Goddard Space Flight Center and interviewed their leader Dr. Stephen Maran, director of NASA'S Operation Kohoutek. Hannifin, a former student of celestial navigation, also consulted with local "sensitives" and was assured that Kohoutek's metaphysical "vibrations" were good. To fully appreciate this portent, Hannifin plans to attend a "celebration of consciousness" this week atop a high-rise apartment building in Washington, with his psyche - and his twelve-power telescope - in sharp focus...