Word: presciently
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...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...
...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...