Word: predict
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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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...
...hostile critics concede that Stravinsky's fire is still burning. Says Composer Aaron Copland, who is not hostile: "All the other composers over 50 -the famous ones, I mean-are turning out more or less what is expected of them . . . Only Stravinsky [writes so] that no one can predict just where he will be taking us next...
...Hippocrates, doctors have believed that certain kinds of people lean toward certain kinds of diseases. Many a wild guess has been made about body types (e.g., tall, thin people get tuberculosis; short, fat ones get apoplexy). Last week two Manhattan doctors came out with a new formula, to help predict every man's psychosomatic risks...
Whether an intimate glimpse of local masculinity will alter last year's verdicts is impossible to predict. There is a scathing opinion to be overcome...
TIME, in its impetuous desire to display satirical muscles, neglected to note McCoy's adroit use of symbolism, the uncanny fluency and nearness of his dialogue, and the influence (for good or bad) of Henry Miller upon his writing. I predict that TIME will shortly be forced to eat the cynicism and satire that was so flippantly fired from the side of its mouth...