Word: prophetic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...father, the chief, invoked an ancient tradition: he decreed that his son should not be buried until he was avenged in blood. Fadwa, the widow, shed her modern ways and vowed that her family, the fierce Barazis, would also avenge her husband. The Abbouds and the Barazis knew the Prophet had sanctioned what they must do, for it is written in the Koran: "0 believers! Retaliation for bloodshed is prescribed...
...sseldorf, Dr. Wilhelm Meyer-Cords, chairman of the North Rhine-Westphalian branch of Germany's Space Research Society, told fellow rocketeers that U.S. scientists are probably already at work building a space station. In case anyone doubted him, Dr. Meyer-Cords also presented a paper by Space Prophet Wernher von Braun, guided-missile expert for U.S. Army Ordnance. Von Braun already has plans for a man-carrying rocket that can reach the moon. His rocket would carry 20 passengers and make the round trip in ten days. Give him some $4 billion, says Von Braun...
...mechanical defect, and its price is high: unemployment. The solution. stated in its simplest form: government investment. The less radical of the British Socialists, e.g., the late Sir Stafford Cripps, followed Keynes (who died in 1946). Whatever may be said for or against him, Keynes was, essentially, the prophet of economic patchwork...
...some like the language of a very gifted high-school senior who has cried Tom Wolfe once too often. To others, especially to those who were not disturbed to find the rhythms of the King James Version forced on secular prose, it sounded like the voice of a new prophet, crying in the wilderness of South Africa.' But most critics agreed that Author Paton' had a very compelling manner, if not a truly original style, and that he had painstakingly wedded manner to matter, especially in describing the life of his beloved country and the tragedy...
...years ago, Sammy was just a columnist for wealthy Press Lord Assis ("Chato") Chateaubriand (TIME, June 8). But when Sammy came out for ex-Dictator Getulio Vargas in the last presidential election, Chato wired him: "I am buying ice for your hot head." Vargas won, and nicknamed Wainer "The Prophet." Money poured in from pro-Vargas industrialists and from the Vargas-controlled Bank of Brazil (a reputed $18 million) to buy Wainer a plant and start a new, pro-Vargas paper, Ultima Hora...