Word: prescient
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...effect he had read himself out of the Democratic Party, leaving Truman no choice but to fire him. The proCommunists did not realize at first what had happened, because Wallace in his speech also lightly rapped Russia; they booed him for that. But by all the evidence, Moscow, more prescient, sensed the prize within its grasp and ordered the U.S. Communists to seize him. Quickly the peace front corrected its faulty line and hailed its new-found hero...
Forecasting curves, as far as the Economics Department is concerned, has always been a hazardous, inaccurate business. These prescient folk predicted a cyclical upswing a week before the '29 crash...
...Wells's The World Set Free (1914) is even more prescient. It describes a war in which "most of the capital cities of the world" are destroyed by atomic bismuth bombs, with "millions of people" dead or dying amid complete chaos...
...honor to Navy's sub hunters. But honor, too, to Army men foresighted enough to have the very-long-range equipment ready when the going was hottest. Navy's land-based, long-range planes were taken over from Army's prescient purchases...
Faced with the enormous portent of Anglo-U.S. alliance in a postwar world of fewer great powers, Britons had also to face the immensely strong position of the U.S. in such an alliance. Many a Briton might recall that, back in 1929, prescient old George Bernard Shaw had written a play called The Apple Cart. In that play U.S. Ambassador Vanhattan calls on Britain's King Magnus...