Word: portents
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...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...
This Waldorf-Astoria lunch was a portent of the big-time buildup to come, a publicity campaign sketched out by high-priced public-relations expert Edward L. Bernays. But part of the publicity that followed wasn't in the Bernays blueprint. To reporters. Wallace pooh-poohed Senator Vandenberg's conversion to internationalism, credited it to young (37), able James Reston, national reporter of the New York Times. Next day Reston wrote a letter to the editor of the Times. Said...
...deluge of profundity concerning the delicacy and portent of relations between the western democracies and Russia, which has been pouring from the typewriters of American journalists, has temporarily obscured the increasing threat to world peace inherent in the internal structure and probable ambitions of the two Spanish speaking, fascist-type nations--Spain and Argentina...
...portent emphasized by stern and conservative language, "One World Or None" jolts into sharp focus the problem created by the release of atomic energy. The 79-page report leaves no question as to the gravity of the problem and the need for decisive and immediate action toward its solution. And the authors--Walter Lippmann, General Arnold, and thirteen top-ranking scientists--conclude that the only way to this solution lies in a sovereign world organization designed to eradicate both the right and the possibility of waging...
...every sign & portent this would be India's year of decision-a decision that would be bitterly contested by all three partners to India's future: the British Raj, 256 million Hindus, 92 million Moslems...