Word: predictable
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Prediction. At the Rio Conference (see The Hemisphere), Morinigo's Foreign Minister, Dr. Federico Chaves, fresh from dining with Perón, .said that the elections, which Morinigo had been promising for six years, would be held immediately. He could and did predict the winner: the Colorado Party, headed by Morinigo. In this forecast, plain Paraguayans could find one consolation: if the rebels had won the war, it would only have meant swapping one dictatorship for another...
Most of Bert's competitors shake their heads over such an outlay and predict a crippling overhead. But Bert and son are satisfied. Last year they netted $21,000; they hope that the new shop, charging regular prices, plus a branch to be opened at the new Los Angeles Municipal Airport, will boost 1947's profit...
...Italian Risorgimento, Congo dialects, cooking and the privately printed pornographies of Mark Twain. Some of its treasures haven't been consulted by any one for half a century. Some others come in handy: during World War II, members of Harvard's 600-man library staff could predict coming invasions by the books Washington asked...
Year of Crisis. U.S. military strategists know that the balance of military power is changing. They are sure they can predict almost to the year when it will have shifted to a critical degree, just as the President's civilian Advisory Commission on Universal Training forecast the situation three weeks...
...play. I go out on a warm June afternoon to see Williams slug away, and what inevitably happens? There are men on second and third and Williams is up. Even the little thrill of pleasure that makes me quiver to think that I can predict a play is not enough to offset the tragic disappointment when the great Ted has to drop his bat and sidle to first. It is the great flaw in the American psyche. And how would you like to be the guy (poor bastard) who they walk Williams to get to. He's the fellow...