Neele was described as short of stature and of appearance rather humble and unprepossessing, but his large expanse of forehead and the fire of his eye betokened mind and imagination.
The walls were adorned by appropriate mottoes, even unique representations of the bridal ceremony had been devised, and everything betokened the happy understanding existing there between labor and capital.
Some of the tender-skinned friends were on the point of losing dignity, and the atmosphere betokened a storm.
But at the same time he knew that it betokened the end for him.
It was a very human approach, full of a warm sympathy, delivered with the confidence that betokened not a maiden speech but many years of practised public speaking.
I say once more that the debate as a whole has betokened the right spirit for handling a matter of this kind.
What they did not know and could not know until long after the plant was closed was what this betokened for their health.
Perhaps a more vigorous approach could be betokened by the production of the 1978 annual report, which is well overdue.