Word: predictably
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Nobody can predict precisely the point at which the Chinese would quit. But governments that find wars politically unprofitable usually stop fighting...
...reach the top of his profession as president (1950-51) of the American Institute of Accountants. A Democrat, he liked Ike but took no active part in the campaign. Blunt, hard-driving Coleman Andrews trod on many a toe as Richmond city comptroller and Virginia state auditor, and friends predict he will spare no toes as the nation's chief tax collector...
...takes a hardy man to predict the future of the human race for the next million years. Such a man is Charles Galton Darwin, 65, grandson of the late great Charles Robert (The Origin of Species) Darwin, and former Master of Christ College, Cambridge. His just-published book, The Next Million Years (Doubleday; $2.75), is sugar-coated with flowing, donnish English, but it contains a bitter pill for people with faith in human progress. The ultimate future of the race, says Writer Darwin, will be much like its deplorable past...
...door, held them incommunicado overnight, and next morning shipped them by government plane to Panama. Handed their passports in mid-air by the pilot, the U.R.D. leaders were dumped at Panama without money, a change of clothes or even their toothbrushes. Protesting this "fascist stratagem," Villalba bitterly refused to predict that U.R.D. assembly members left in Venezuela would dare stand up to Pérez Jiménez after such a show of force...
Shepard figures that Columbia and Pennsylvania will set the pace in the E.I.B.L. "Ivy" loop, with last year's champion, Princeton, and Cornell battling for the next two places. He would not predict any final spot for the Crimson...