Word: prospect
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...pleasure to see Bracken hanging by his finger tips from about the eightieth floor of a New York skyscraper while his hands are pounded by a drunk with a cane. The tragic outcome of the scene (Bracken doesn't fall), while anticlimactic, fails to take the edge off the prospect of his immediate and horrible death...
There was nothing but good to report of the U.S. larder. "Plentiful supplies of most foods are in prospect. . . . More ice cream, cheese, condensed and evaporated milk, fluid cream, canned vegetables and fresh and frozen fish will be available. . . . Eggs and fluid milk will continue plentiful. . . . Chicken, turkey, fresh fruits and vegetables, frozen and dried fruits, potatoes and sweet potatoes and cereal products will continue substantially the same. . . . Supplies of some meats and fats (other than butter) will be larger than before the war. . . . Sugar supplies should improve...
...owlish Boss Crump," "hen-shaped Mayor LaGuardia," I am disturbed by an increasing ornithophobia. I now spend too much time peering into the faces of my friends for aviary symptoms. No owls, they. I have only succeeded in upsetting and alienating them. In a world fraught with crises, one prospect looms: one of these days they'll find me addressing a pigeon as "Your Honor...
...Much larger atomic charges are in prospect. Present discussion assumes that atomic bombs will be dropped from planes; actually, atomic charges can be adapted for delivery to a target as rockets, as robombs, or shipped in wardrobe trunks...
Foreseeing the argument ahead, Jimmy Forrestal let it be known that the blueprint was no hard & fast plan; everybody would have a chance to make his case. Navy flyers and battleship men alike hoped that the prospect of weapons still to be built would not talk anybody into sinking the fleet or any part of it. Plain citizens who remembered the scrapping of some of the best of the fleet after World War I would agree with them...