Word: presciently
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...Prescient men have seen it coming, but they have kept their silence in a spirit of filial devotion. The abolition of Greek and Latin entrance requirements, the establishment of Radcliffe and Social Relations--these were received with stunned but obedient submission. Now the time for silence is past; the time has come to speak out, for Harvard's Ages of Gold and Silver are forever gone, and usurping Brass anticks in its vulgar triumph...
...Hall), 66, retired war correspondent, author and radio commentator, whose obsessive orientalism led to his dismissal from NBC in 1944 because he demanded that U.S. put Asia first on list of wartime targets (rather than Europe); in the collision of his auto with a train; near Guadalajara, Mexico. A prescient analyst of Far East developments in the 1930s. Close predicted Japanese war aims and the rise of Red China. In the 1940s he helped organize reactionary American Action, Inc., bitterly opposed the U.N. ("All this idealism is the bunk...
...settled too often for the topical, at least the topics were compelling: racial prejudice (The Chequer Board); war's massacre of the innocents (Pied Piper)] the apocalypse of nuclear global suicide (On the Beach). At times Shute was notably prescient. In Ordeal (March 1939) he conjured up the spectacle of a bomb-battered England. Long before the Comet crashes, he visualized aircraft exploding from metal fatigue (No Highway). In an age of equivocal values, Shute took an authoritative, old-fashioned moral stance. His men were manly. His women were womanly and virtuous. Sex was linked to marriage; evil, when...
...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...