Word: predict
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...predict what will happen when the paratroopers are replaced by the National Guard, or when uniformed troops are withdrawn entirely. Certainly the majority of Little Rock citizens oppose integration and many more resent the presence of military force...
...Officially, the U.S. pleaded the need of more information, but actually the State Department straddled in the hope of not antagonizing either of two friends, Britain or Saudi Arabia. Beforehand, the State Department had been sufficiently disturbed by Caccia's warnings to ask its own London embassy to predict whether, as Caccia implied, there would be an anguished British outcry against the U.S. for abstaining. The U.S. embassy estimate was that there would not be, and it proved to be right...
...then took 40 cc. of marrow fluid (containing an estimated 2 billion healthy cells) from twin Mary, injected the material into Laura's bloodstream. Though pleased that Laura's blood returned to near normal and she soon showed no signs of active leukemia, the doctors refused to predict how long the improvement might last. ¶ Psychiatrists who seek membership in the powerful American Psychoanalytic Association must first be analyzed themselves, according to the rule laid down by Freud (who analyzed himself). For years many psychiatrists have deducted the cost of such analysis as a business expense against federal...
...onetime Caltech meteorologist who started the first private weather firm in Denver in 1938. A leading rainmaker as well as a hail-halter (TIME, May 20), Krick now serves 200 companies, 260 radio stations and the Mexican Department of Agriculture. As a controversial proponent of really long-range predictions, Krick insists that daily weather can be foretold as far ahead as several years. His most famous forecast: a magic burst of sunshine for the inaugural committee just as President Eisenhower stepped onto the reviewing stand last January. Krick's system ("Do they think I use tea leaves?") is based...
Tornado Alarm. To predict local tornadoes, which often come up too suddenly for the Weather Bureau to forecast, Tornado, Inc., of Oklahoma City, will soon market a barometer with an electrical contact point that sets off an alarm buzzer when atmospheric pressure dips to a dangerous level. Battery-powered signal is small enough to fit in the glove compartment of a car, will give 20 minutes' notice of tornado-producing conditions, says the inventor. Price...