Word: portentously
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...crowd until they managed to place themselves directly in De Gaulle's path. Just as they were about to meet face to face, suave Jacques Chaban-Delmas, responding to advance warnings from Socialists, deftly steered the shortsighted general off in another direction. But it was an unsettling portent. Glumly, the organizers of every public affair that De Gaulle is expected to attend in the next few weeks braced themselves for a rush of unwelcome Red guests...
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Martin will turn over the duties of his office to Edwin H. Sauer, Lecturer on Education in the Graduate School of Education. When asked whether Sauer's assignment meant he might eventually become Director of General Education A, Martin replied, "the choice of Sauer is not necessarily a portent...
...history-steeped halls of the Kremlin, where Czars were crowned, the 1,378 comrade Deputies of the newly elected Supreme Soviet of the U.S.S.R. assembled amid all the panoply and portent of a Communist coronation. Kleig lights blazed down from the Corinthian capitals of St. Andrew's Hall; diplomats and newsmen packed the galleries, photographers jammed the aisles. At one minute past 5 o'clock, the top half-dozen Communist bosses entered from the side, led by bald Nikita Khrushchev with his two Orders of Lenin gleaming from his dark lapel. Joining Russian-fashion in the applause...
...chaos of cutthroat competition, was forming monoliths of monopoly. Labor was adolescent, agitated, angry. Government at best was minimal and at worst could be bought. The radical vote was rising. Said Theodore Roosevelt: "There had been in our country a riot of individualistic materialism . . ." But the darker portent, as the new President saw it. was that the nation was lurching out of certainty into uncertainty, from faith to doubt, from classlessness to class, from dedication to don't care, in a downgrading of the land of promise into a factory in which the gates of opportunity might snap shut...