Word: prospect
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Fact-Finding Formula. As the hours ticked by, big blast and open-hearth furnaces began shutting down. Coke ovens were banked. But under the combined pressure of the White House, public opinion and the dark prospect of a full shutdown, some of the smaller steelmakers capitulated. Then Bethlehem and Republic, junior partners in steel's Big Three, followed suit...
...Anglo-U.S. airlift, which they had thought the West would drop like a hot hand grenade as soon as the New York agreement was reached last May. They no doubt disliked Western stockpiling in Berlin as a buffer against possible future blockades. But Washington accepted with equanimity the prospect of more trouble on the Autobahnen. Said one Department of State spokesman: "We worked out a pretty good scheme of retaliation measures at the time of the lifting of the blockade. The degree of our reaction will be strictly proportionate to the Russian attitude...
...prospect of even a short sojourn in Lercara Friddi was enough to make an active man short-tempered. Lucky roughed up photographers at the entrance to his apartment building. Said he: "In the States I know what I can do and what I can't. Over here it's different. They got laws I don't know anything about...
...Hollywood, most independent producers rubbed their hands at the prospect of the theater owners' largesse. But a few feared that the exhibitors would drive hard loan terms and might spend more time meddling on the sound stages than feeling pulses at the box office...
Having waved aside the prospect of immortality, Writer Mencken laid about him with such relish that it finally settled into a kind of smugness. His iconoclasm became a trademark and an act; the Paris-green-covered American Mercury that he edited became an undergraduate bible for the bright boys of the '20s and early '30s. He scorned marriage ("Bachelors know more about women than married men. If they didn't they'd be married, too"). But he shook the faith of many an admirer when he married at 50 and said: "I have often imagined that...