Word: predicters
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...quotation marks around the words. His most effective support comes from Dirk Bogarde as Bibikov, the court-assigned defender of the fixer. Wearing a fine mask of melancholy disdain, he grows gradually more revulsed by the corruption he witnesses in the palace of justice; his actions and his death predict the fall of the Romanovs as surely as any Leninist edict...
...state supreme court may rule that the shadow which protects marriage does not reach "illicit intercourse." Balliro did not choose to predict that this argument will convince the court. But the argument does give Balliro a chance to list ways in which the laws impose frightening penalties upon those who are prevented from learning about or from taking advantage of birth control devices. The arguments take up only five pages of an 80-page brief, but a sample shows that they give the reasons behind most of the other legal reasoning...
...draft experts expect the situation to change by the summer, when they predict college graduates will fill from 90 to 100 per cent of monthly calls. They expect graduate students actually to be inducted this summer and not just influenced by the fear of induction...
...RIDDLE of a Harvard-Yale football game is one which the wiseacres of the football coterie have never been able to solve. If they cannot explain results that have been, surely they cannot predict what results will be. "The odds are on Harvard," some say with a finality that spells a Crimson victory. But who ever heard of odds on Yale, reasonable or unreasonable? "Harvard has a better record," say others, forgetting that games are not won on records. Harvard tried the record policy in 1910 and Yale in 1911, and neither won. "Yale has the old Yale spirit...
...this year. There would be losses to Dartmouth and Princeton, and perhaps to Cornell too. The Ivy League title would be fought over by Princeton and Yale, and Harvard would only play the role of the spoiler--the spoiling coming at the Yale game simply because to one can predict who will win the Yale game no matter how good either team is. That was the scenario that everyone believed in--until Harvard beat Princeton and Dartmouth and Cornell and all the rest. And now it is time for the Yale game with both Harvard and Yale undefeated...