Word: predictive
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...days later, with the story whipping around Paris, Emmanuel was called by an "embarrassed" official and told that the Consul-General, Mr. Gray wanted to speak to him. On the 21st, Gray promised Emmanuel that he would ask for a special priority, but, would not predict what the State Department would decide. "I said I did not want any favor: just the ordinary routine. It was impossible for me to wait longer: I had then made up my mind not to go to the States... I did not want to be a suspected person ... on the FBI files...
Goodbye to Formosa. Later the Pentagon was still wondering how Acheson had done it. The Joint Chiefs, after all, were supposed to be the guardians of military strategy and the assessors of risk. "I predict," said one conferee drearily, "that the Communists will have Formosa within six months...