Word: prophesyinging
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Archibald MacLeish (at University of Pennsylvania): "Those who tell you that the destroying guns, the ruinous bombs, the fire, the misery, the indiscriminate death of the Fascist military action are a new, creative, irresistible historic force which you cannot oppose but only ride with as the rubbish rides the surf...
Freeman Koo '42 recently finished computing an oriental horoscope for the junk and, after prophesying a glorious future, named it and painted its title in Chinese. At the ceremonies preceding the launching, according to present plans, the old Chinese custom of serving rice will be observed.
The weather bureau is not particularly encouraging, prophesying fair weather, but also a 16 mile an hour northwest breeze over the Charles late this afternoon.
He was 65 years old. He was fat (from good living), rubicund (from good drinking). He walked with a stoop, talked with a lisp. He was tired from a lifetime of fighting singlehanded against "the inadequacy, the apathy, the bloodlessness that ruled England"; from prophesying without effect the things that...
Dozens of prophets predicted the Nazi-Soviet Pact. But so successful was Soviet propaganda in selling Communism as the great & good friend of its archenemy, democracy, that nobody listened. Among these unheeded Cassandras was Henry C. Wolfe, small, bespectacled foreign correspondent and lecturer, who had flitted around Russia and Central...