Word: likelihood
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...experienced his own Bay of Pigs and may have discovered, at considerable cost, the wisdom of consulting more widely and assessing his future major moves more carefully. In dealing with Nixon, Ford could perhaps have tried harder to get a greater concession of wrongdoing. But there is little likelihood that Nixon could ever bring himself to admit full guilt, though that guilt has been adequately documented by the House Judiciary Committee. Even if indicted, he probably would have fought fiercely to seek an acquittal rather than plea-bargain, Agnew-style. Indeed, Illinois Republican Congressman John Anderson offered a cutting observation...
...rises on the horizon that a speech here and there, a book or two and some visits by Billy Graham will bring Nixon back to life. What is more apt to happen is that the full guilt of Watergate will take root on his doorstep and grow. In all likelihood his alienation from his fellow Americans will get worse. The polls indicate that they perceive him not only as one who violated his presidential trust but, in the end, as a man of such shallow courage and character that he could not confess his own fault. A last...
...bugged on Nixon's orders. Another potential danger to the former President is that he will be disbarred. Still, these problems are less pressing than the one President Ford disposed of with his order of Executive clemency. The future remains cloudy for Richard Nixon, but in all likelihood he no longer faces the prospect of being the first President of the United States to go to prison...
...from others. Princeton Demographer Norman B. Ryder notes that "there is less likelihood of ethnic conflict when all groups are growing...
...time being, however, there seems little likelihood of a mass invasion of France by amorous Americans. They will still have to surrender their passports at the hotel desk, meaning that, in practice, unwed couples may be reluctant to admit their liaison and have to sleep for the price of two-demurely in separate rooms, often on separate floors, connected by leering elevator operators. Nonetheless, as it always has, l'amour will doubtless find...