Word: oracular
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Carlos got his first lessons from Don Ricardo, the liberal judge who wanted to see "a democracy in the Locke tradition." But Don Ricardo sounded mild to Carlos after the young man fell in with some of San Marcos' parlor radicals. One of them, a sottish and oracular Scot, explained to him why radicalism would gain a hold among the Indians: "And rrrememberr also, Carries, the Bolsheviks may not be rrright, but they prrresent a hope. To the rrragged and the hungrry and the sick of hearrt they prrresent a hope!" Carlos remembered it a long time, especially after...
...grew to enormous size. The Court held that Judge Picard was wrong, that all makeready and walking time on company property had to be paid for. Suddenly, the genie of portal-to-portal pay hovered, mountain high, not only over small Mt. Clemens Pottery, but over all industry. The oracular Court gave a hint, however, on how the monster might be lured back into the bottle. Under the legal doctrine of de minimis ("the law does not concern itself with trifles"), all small amounts of makeready time were to be disregarded. With that, the Court handed the case back...
Unacknowledged by the Corporation and unknown to himself, Bill Cunningham, Boston's oracular columnist, has become a stern tutor of journalese to two sections of English A students. Immersion in Cunningham's daily articles was prescribed by James a. Walker, instructor in English, who characterized the Boston scribe tersely as "a good mine of irresponsible logical development...
...hurried high-strategy meeting, announced their willingness to form a government. As the nation's largest party, they proposed a coalition Cabinet under their burly Secretary General Maurice Thorez, who spent most of the war years comfortably in Moscow. A more likely candidate of the Left coalition was oracular Socialist Vincent Auriol, foreign-affairs expert and a middleman in his party's divided house...
Kaltenborn left the Eagle in 1930 for WABC, key station of the Columbia net work. He was 52. Since then he has been a prize example both of radio's oracular virtues and its faults...