Word: likelihood
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White had been quietly talking with Police Chief Charles Ingersoll of Charlotte, N.C., about the likelihood of his replacing McNamera. One day, shortly before Ingersoll was to come to Boston for talks with White, a Boston newspaper reporter was visiting White's Mount Vernon Street home for a folksy interview with Mrs. White. While there he noticed Ingersoll's name on some note-papers on White's desk. He did some checking and the story of White's "attempt" to remove McNamera made the press. Instantly dozens of people, including the Massachusetts Chiefs of Police Association, shocked by a supposed...
...gets the most votes wins and represents that district. After all, the great bulk of the German people, including the trade unions and press, want nothing to do with anything resembling a new Führer. On a straight man-to-man voting system, the National Democrats in all likelihood would not win a plurality in a single constituency...
...papers appealing to Irish workers in Britain not to come home for the holidays. France, Germany, Belgium and Holland have banned meat imports from the United Kingdom. Australia has ruled that emigrants from Britain can enter the country only by ship, not by air, in order to diminish the likelihood of the virus' living long enough to infect Australian herds with the disease...
...ancestor of all man-v.-devil stories, the Faust legend has spawned some curious offspring over the centuries. The latest, Stanley Donen's Bedazzled, could in all likelihood qualify as the worst. A meek little short-order cook (Dudley Moore) hankers inarticulately after the waitress (Eleanor Bron) in a London greasy spoon. The Devil (Peter Cook) follows him home and makes a proposition: seven wishes granted, a soul in return...
...though, the line is arbitrary--if its purpose just to mark out an identifiable target without regard to the nature of the research itself or of the non-research activity--then, aside from the likelihood that an embarrassingly large number of angels will be caught in the netful of devils, there is the question of what is being objected to and what the purpose of the boycott is. The purpose can no longer be described as bringing pressure to bear to get objectionable activities terminated. Rather, it would look--to me, at any rate--as though a boycott were being...