Word: portends
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Rocky, vacationing most of last week at his Seal Harbor, Me., estate, such statistics could only portend disaster. There is, of course, no doubt that he means to seek the G.O.P. presidential nomination next year. But he had meant to play things fairly cautiously. And now, in the face of all the worsening word, he was forced to step up his schedule. On his direct orders, Rocky's aides last week fanned out about the nation to assure G.O.P. leaders that "we are in the fight all the way," and to say that Rocky would test his popularity...
...with the height of Hank Tison and Jay Buckley (both 6 ft. 10 in.) make the Blue Devils look invincible on paper. They're not. Although they sport a 20-game winning streak, Duke has a sometimes shoddy defense and a rather ineffectual set of multiple offenses which may portend trouble for them tonight...
Once again Updike's comet-a blazing thesaurus trailed by an incandescence of reputation-is visible against the night sky. What wonders does it portend...
...early records would not be out of place at a funeral. More recently she has added some lighter material to create a semblance of variety, but the force of sadness in her personality is so compelling that even the wonderful and instructive lyrics of Copper Kettle somehow manage to portend a doom deeper than a jail sentence...
Many leading whites were alarmed at this drastic action. To former Chief Justice Sir Robert Tredgold, who resigned from the bench in 1960 in protest against earlier restrictive measures, the new laws portend "a police state." What chiefly worried whites was the likelihood that such harsh measures might simply force the African nationalists underground. This seemed to be precisely what Joshua Nkomo had in mind. His answer to the government was simple and brisk: "The bannings will not be accepted...