Word: prophetic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...rich enough to do. At this point the cat pops out of the bag. Pleader Brailsford declares that only the U. S. can reconquer Nazified Europe-and that means another U. S. expeditionary force. Or perhaps it means that Liberal Brailsford is too logical to make a good prophet...
...years, wrote Prophet Lyle, "these things went on with scarcely a ripple on the serene surface of world affairs. . . . Then ... in cold blood the German Government set about manufacturing provocation for the attack. . . . Suddenly the world was asked to believe that we were war-mad aggressors wantonly attacking an unprepared and peace-loving Fatherland. . . . Then-the German ultimatum...
Last week, in a big old house in San Diego, white-haired Eugene Lyle, now 66, sat listening to radio reports of the war he had awaited since 1918. Asked who will be Europe's master in 1960, Prophet Lyle saw too many uncertainties ahead. Of one thing only was he positive: "The combatants will still be recovering from the exhaustion, economic and spiritual...
Last week came his hour of triumph. Eagle-eyed Editor Gunter d'Alquen of Das Schwarze Korps, organ of Hitler's Schutzstaffel, discovered that Emperor Ulrich was none other than Adolf Hitler, proclaimed Poet Thomasset a new prophet of National Socialism. Reviewing The Miraculous Victory as an inspired revelation, he added a prophecy of his own: Thomasset's "vision of the future . . . may come more quickly now than Thomasset thought...
Watching the cheerful Londoners from their own sluggish exchange, many a Manhattan broker recalled that the City had often proved a better and an earlier prophet than the Street in the past. Some reflected that English brokers have sons and cousins in the R. A. F., may get firsthand information on the progress of the air war. A few, juggling figures, tried to prove that London's price rise meant the beginning of inflation...