Word: predictional
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...desks, were deep in the pages of the Jackson Daily News. But Fustianeer Bilbo ranted on. Stepping gingerly as Agag through the bad eggs of his logic, he somehow managed to: 1) praise Franklin Roosevelt, 2) damn Eleanor Roosevelt, 3) boom Term IV, 4) denounce New Deal bureaucracy, 5) predict bloody postwar race riots, 6) deny that U.S. Negroes have any right to vote. Typical Bilboisms...
Chief Night Owl (real name: Roxy Hamilton), a Manitoba legislator, let out a secret for which his male constituents might well have scalped him. Cree braves, said he, invariably predict a light winter; otherwise their squaws would make them get into the woods, cut fuel for the winter woodpile...
...Weld, research director of McCann-Erickson, Inc., had predicted, recovery from war's first shocks (in the first half of 1942) had been swift and strong. As to 1944: "Paper shortage is the only thing that can hold advertising back, and one cannot predict anything about that" (see below...
...beginning Hobby had confidently proclaimed: "Women will come marching -shoulder to shoulder-to serve their country. ... I predict that all America will be proud of them." Last week she said pensively: "I don't think it is so strange that there are no more women in uniform. Add up all the services, WACs, WAVES, SPARS, Marines and the various nursing corps and you get a sizable number of women who volunteered. I don't think it's a bad figure...
...British airmen proved last week that in Europe's winter they can find a succession of days when invasion flying is feasible. But those days are hard to predict. For all its weather data, the entire U.S. Army in the European theater now looks to its Air Forces...