Word: prospect
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...main street of Mukden's former modern Japanese area is now "Stalin Prospect." The Yamato Hotel is "Hotel of the Intourist Travel Agency of Moscow, U.S.S.R." Near Mukden's railway station is a granite-mounted Red Army tank, a memorial to Russian soldiers. Russian and Chinese flags fly together everywhere, but there is little doubt which flag dominates...
Britain was tired. She had lacked so much of life for so long; victory's just rewards were one's due. Few Britons voted for the controlled life when they voted Socialist last year. They voted for a bearable life, and for the prospect of a good life. They have not got either and will not get anything better for a long time. Instead, they are adjusting themselves to a grey world of poverty-and to genteel inferiority in comparison with the powerful, prosperous...
...members of the mission, with growing uneasiness, were privately applying their knowledge to U.S. cities, to see how they would withstand an atomic bomb. The prospect was not pleasing. Experts, including leaders of the Manhattan Project, believed that buildings of timber or brick would be smashed or burned. Manhattan's stockiest skyscrapers might stand up, but many of their light "curtain walls" would be swept away, leaving only skeleton steel. In downtown New York, a single up-to-date bomb might kill a million people. Some might live for a while, eventually die by inches. Few U.S. buildings could...
...moon. Author MacDonald had sometimes dreamed of a little haunt far from the clawing hands of civilization with its telephones, electric appliances, artificial amusements and artificial people. After nine stimulating months with the mountains, the trees, the rain and the chickens, "I would have swooned with anticipation at the prospect of a visit from a Mongolian idiot...
...prospect of opening up the north land had long been tempting. Twice in the '20s and early '30s get-rich-quick speculators started rushes to neighboring Labrador in a fools' search for gold. Then, along the border between Ungava and Labrador, more serious prospectors uncovered an iron belt which looked like one of the biggest in the world...