Word: likelihood
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...really a land of murder and muddle. And there is little likelihood that either murder or muddle will halt soon. The sullen masses of evicted blacks in the overrun reserves; the white farmers and their wives besieged in their farmhouses with revolvers next to the dinner plates; the bearded commandos stumbling through forests after the elusive Mau Mau; the brittle Mayfair-in-suburbia life of spuriously gay Nairobi ; the purple-faced ex-colonels in the very, very particular Rift Valley Club- none of them seeming to know what to do. Not even the Mau Mau themselves seem to know what...
Reporter Philip Potter of the Baltimore Evening Sun: "I've noticed the last couple of weeks that churchmen seem to be increasingly critical of the congressional investigation in [the education] field. Some see it as a preliminary approach in the church field. Is there any likelihood of this...
Almost all experts questioned agreed that the likelihood of Russian aggression as a result of Stalin's death is very slim, mainly because whoever succeeds him will have to be concerned with internal consolidation of power...
Thus, even though Conant's successor will in all likelihood be selected before Commencement, Conant will still be President. His successor will be President Designate...
...also be to antagonize Germany, for De Gaulle insists that Germany must sign a separate treaty with France agreeing to junior status and fewer troops than the French have in France. Germany also has to acknowledge that a Frenchman "must" command the European defense. Since there is no greater likelihood of De Gaulle's ideas being accepted, the danger is that, if the European Army is rejected, nothing at all will be done: only more talk, more drafts, more delays...