Word: prospect
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Christmas dinner in the Union and New Year's Eve in the Yard is the prospect still facing most of the University's 664 foreign students. Only 30 families have volunteered so far to entertain them over the coming vacation, Peter Ways '49 of the Student Council's International Activities Committee announced last night...
...Arabs planned uprisings, an economic blockade, concentrated attacks on outlying Jewish settlements and pinpoint attacks against the long exposed borders of the crazy-quilt Jewish state. The Arabs seemed resigned to the prospect of an armed struggle. They regarded partition in its present form as so outrageous that there was no alternative...
...Prospect. Some Mexican papers hailed the decision as a triumph of Mexico over the gringos; others praised U.S. cooperation, expressed regret that the campaign had not been successful. U.S. cattle-raisers attacked the new policy, charged that it would tend to fasten the plague on Mexico, leave the way open for its spread...
...Mayor William O'Dwyer of New York, faced with the prospect of boosting subway fares, told an audience: "[It] isn't my fault that the nickel got grey-headed and bald. It has lost its teeth and hair ... it can't buy anything any more...
...Prospect. Among the other additions would be three large ships for the New York-Mediterranean route, and five round-the-world cruisers. The committee urged that the Government start the program with a flat 50% subsidy of all costs, estimated at some $500 million...