Word: predictably
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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History has lurched from its orbit; Cassandra herself could not predict events today. Not merely state or moral statutes seem suspended, but the laws of probability and chance. The lethal tendency has been crystallizing for well over a decade. In 1960, South African Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd, the high-profile white supremacist, had been ad dressing a crowd, surrounded by police. Like the Israeli guards, they searched the audience for danger, looking no doubt for the face of black rage. Verwoerd was shot by a mild white man who slipped through unsuspected. John and Robert Kennedy, whose enemies were supposed...
...What we are looking for," Parker said yesterday, "is the fastest boat that we can possibly put together. The oarsmen who rowed for Harvard this year would be considered very good by almost any standards. However, it is impossible to predict how they will do or what will happen at the camp. They are going to be up against some really stiff competition...
Potential disagreements over investments, Bok said, first occurred to him on a much wider scale than the eventual focus on the Gulf stock. He admitted that he "might well have met with PALC more often in the Fall," but he maintains that "it is very hard to predict what effect it would
...find him the only true choice offered in American politics. Both of these men combine a broad populist program with an earthy, honest approach, and the parallelism of their success can be traced to basic similarities. The effect of both on the politics of 1972 is difficult to predict; and now both find themselves watching from unaccustomed positions, one from a hospital bed, the other from the front-runner spot...
...contrast, the Abron people of the Ivory Coast are more aggressive-"but in ways which no biologist could predict on the basis of instinct theory." Their aggression does not seem to arise from an inner, unalterable genetic program. Instead, it is generated by external situations and is released only through socially approved channels. Initially, Abron children are indulged and fondled by all the adults around them and show no aggression-until a new child is born. Then, Alland writes, having been abruptly displaced from center stage, "most babies who have been quite placid up to this point begin to show...