Word: portentously
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...jumped to a 6-2 lead. But Harvard watched that lead dwindle in the final two minutes of the game. By the time the game was over, the Crimson was hanging on to a 6-5 victory. Its gutsy grip on victory was inspiring. But the game was a portent of the rest of the season--the Crimson fizzled in the ECAC playoffs...
...interrupted every so often by the appearance of his father. As the summer wears on, Bechstein's visits with his father become more painful; he begins to see the man behind the mob. For Bechstein, his father is both a ghost, of a life he left behind, and a portent, of future that may await...
...playing catch-up ball for a time. As Shultz last week set out for Moscow, where he was to meet with Soviet officials before moving on to the Middle East, the Secretary professed to be unperturbed by Shamir's lack of enthusiasm or any other unfavorable Middle East portent. Said Shultz: "The thing is to get going...
...sound that they inhabited -- Steppenwolf, Country Joe and the Fish, the Jefferson Airplane, the Grateful Dead, Marvin Gaye, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Simon and Garfunkel, the Beatles going into their White Album phase and, above all, Bob Dylan, still. Dylan's music had a genius of portent: "The answer, my friend, is blowin' in the wind." Back in 1965 he had written, "Something is happening here, but you don't know what it is, do you, Mr. Jones?" He was right...
Last year as a sophomore, Yohe got his first start against Dartmouth. It was a portent of things to come. In that game, Yohe ran for 120 yards and passed for 106 to lead the Crimson to a 42-26 victory...