Word: presciently
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...reason why Hamilton has sometimes seemed so out of place in his own century, Rossiter believes, is that he was uniquely prescient in his notion of the nation's future needs. Hamilton was "the prophet of industrial America." He foresaw the reach of the Constitution's interstate commerce clause; and "aware that America might live forever in a world at war," Hamilton created "a theory of the war power that has never been matched for grandeur and realism...
...Truman fired General Douglas MacArthur, Pearson made a prescient speech that was all but ignored: "The days of relatively easy and automatic political relations with our neighbor are, I think, over." He was talking as much to Canadians as Americans, and urging a mutual realization that with a next-door view, Canada could speak up to-and for-U.S. leadership more usefully if its voice was more than merely an echo...
...Many prescient Europeans, including Churchill, thought that Europe might be dead. The age in which the physical resources of a single nation were enough to ensure its sovereignty had ended. No European state, and perhaps no combination of European states, was powerful enough to with-stand the domination of the two multinational empires whose boundaries now met in the geographical center of the old continent...
...just the fact of what Charles de Gaulle had already done tormented his allies: it was what he might yet do. And they searched his prescient pronouncements from the past (see box) for clues...
...Another prescient insight was Clifford's careful questioning of exactness of measurement...