Word: prophetic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...would vote as Republicans or Democrats in November, were not sure, watching Wallace's political sideshow, just what to make of him. Was he a liberal-or a lollipop? Was he Sir Galahad or, as Westbrook Pegler has savagely dubbed him, an old Bubblehead? Was he a true prophet or a sinister Pied Piper...
...write for the family's Wallaces' Farmer. He wrote a three-volume story of his life and a robust column, "Uncle Henry's Sabbath School Lesson," which was one of the biggest circulation builders in Midwest journalism. To grandfather Henry, who looked like an Old Testament prophet, the Old Testament stories were as fresh as the morning milk...
Fifth Dimension. The more people came, the wilder John Brown talked. He declaimed like a prophet, his dark eyes glowing. "For five years," he told a newsman, "I've been living in the fifth dimension. The master cell has 38 crystals. This develops in an evolutionary process, and the crystals increase. After a while, we'll all be made up of crystals, and we'll all be living in the fifth dimension. We'll all be living in space, and there will be no such thing as time. It'll be a beautiful world...
Thus a reasonable assessment would conclude that the chance of war had not increased. Although men do not always act reasonably, nobody in the West but a certified prophet had a right to predict (as some uncertified prophets did last week) that war was close...
Though many foreign observers had been rooting for Arthur Vandenberg because they knew where he stood, they conceded that Tom Dewey would not be too bad. Moscow, of course, stuck with damaging loyalty to Henry Wallace and denounced Dewey as a "prophet of imperialism." Le Parisien announced the governor's victory thus: "Tom Dewey is only one meter 56 centimeters tall, but his voice is the most radiophonic...