Word: prophetic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...soon go to Oxford to explain American civilization, has already rendered his verdict. Said Dobie: "A man can come to Texas and without interference invite all the people he wants to join the Republican Party, the Liar's Club, the Association for the Anointment of Herbert Hoover as Prophet, almost any kind of organization except one. If the Manford Law is an index of capitalism's future policy, the people had better begin digging cellars for the revolution...
...Prophet Mohammed said "God would make fast an ease and not a difficulty," sensibly exempted the old, the sick, the pregnant, nursing mothers, wayfarers and all who work too hard. And the Prophet told his followers to go ahead and indulge their postponed pleasures after sunset. Consequently many Moslems, particularly wealthy fasters, raise considerable cain through the nights of modern Ramadan...
...received the Distinguished Service Medal for it. "If you want something tough done, call on Turner," is a Navy adage, one reason why he was selected to coordinate sea, air and land forces in island warfare. He foresaw the importance of submarines in a U.S.-Japanese war, was a prophet of raiding warfare. Before the attack, at his Guadalcanal headquarters (where his staff includes a Marine colonel, a Navy captain, an Army major), he saw everyone from PT-boat skippers to major generals...
...BARUCH, the name . . . of a character in the Old Testament, associated with the prophet Jeremiah, and described as his secretary and spokesman . . . the Book of Baruch . . . consists of several parts, which cohere so badly that we are obliged to assume plurality of authorship...
...modern New Deal the prophet Jeremiah seems to prefer to be his own spokesman at the weekly press conferences. However, the lack of coherence which would lead to the assumption of plurality of authorship still befuddles the minds...