Word: prospect
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...timber and required a special license from the timber control authorities), and it took considerable conniving to lure a plum pudding out of the grocer, but the children's toy supply had improved. For English members of the bureau like June Rose, the season offered an additional prospect: "The whole family is finally demobilized, and we'll sit around the fire together in civilian clothes for the first time since...
...Dutch at home are beginning to understand that Ir. Soekarno & Co. are attempting to engineer a complete break, economic as well as political. As a result Holland's earlier, more tolerant attitude toward Indonesian home rule is stiffening. But at best the Dutch faced a pretty grim prospect. Sardonic Hubertus van Mook put it this way: "There will be shooting for a long time in Indonesia, but we hope to get it on a friendlier basis...
Notre Dame, upset by Wisconsin after a high-scoring start, was touting a San Francisco sharpshooter named Kevin O'Shea, said to be the best West Coast prospect since Stanford's great Hank Lui-setti. U.C.L.A.'s Davage Minor was being talked about as the best Negro player in basketball history...
...measure of solitude was in prospect for French Historian Bernard Faÿ (The Revolutionary Spirit in France and America; George Washington: Republican Aristocrat), onetime lecturer in U.S. universities. For compiling a giant list of French Freemasons which the Gestapo used as a directory for arrests and executions, Scholar Faÿ was sentenced in Paris to life imprisonment at hard labor...
Last week Grierson was in Paris speaking for British culture at UNESCO meetings. He was also organizing a new U.S.British-Canadian company called The World Today, Inc., which plans to make 26 "international" fact films a year. Without much prospect of getting any fresh movie criticism out of such a busy executive, Grierson fans were poring over a collection of his old, still-fresh work recently published in England as Grierson on Documentary, edited by Forsyth Hardy (Collins, 16s.). When the book comes out in the U.S. next spring, it rates a more apt title. Actually, the collection is Grierson...