Word: prescient
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...next day the papers discovered they had not been so wrong after all. The A.P. ticker brought the news that Furrier-Hotelman Ritter had just died in Nice, France. Back on the beam again, the Herald Tribune and World-Telegram printed new versions of their earlier prescient obits and brought their necrology up to date...
Iowa quickly made Leahy look prescient. Coming up to the end of the first half, Underdog Iowa, perennial also-rans of the Big Ten, actually led the nation's No. 1 team 7 to 0. What happened next sent the lowans off to intermission with gritted teeth: with time running out, a Notre Dame lineman feigned an injury. This stopped the clock and gave Notre Dame time for one more pass play. The pass, from Quarterback Ralph Guglielmi to End Dan Shannon, was good, and Notre Dame tied the score...
...tights, with Dr. Watson dancing by his side to help thwart evil Professor Moriarty, in a ballet called The Great Detective. Such goings-on, rumbled the New York Herald Tribune in an editorial, are "nothing less than revolting . . . enough to outrage one's Victorian soul . . . We recall the prescient words of Sherlock Holmes himself: 'There is but one step from the grotesque to the horrible...
...Emergency Turn 9." In 1943, with the training program running like a watch, Radford persuaded his superiors to send him to sea, fought his first major action as commander of a carrier group in the U.S. invasion of the Gilberts (Tarawa-Makin). He had a prescient hunch that the Jap carriers, fed up with heavy daytime losses, would launch an attack at night. With Lieut. Commander Edward H. ("Butch") O'Hare, famed Congressional Medal winner, Radford worked out a radar-equipped night fighter system. When -sure enough-Jap torpedo planes were reported approaching after dusk, O'Hare took...