Word: prospect
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...well-trained men (including the jeep-riding Reparto Celere riot squads) who squelched the troublemakers with some shooting and 7,000 arrests. His hardfisted record earned him the nickname "Iron Sicilian." Premiership. Out of office for five months after De Gasperi's last Cabinet, Scelba emerged as a prospect for Premier in early 1954. To a reporter who came to his office, just as a forlorn lemon tree on the terrace began to bear fruit, Scelba remarked: "I didn't think this lemon tree would ever blossom, but ..." A few days later, he was Premier. He has survived...
Last week, faced with the prospect of playing host to a detachment of armed men, Dickie Bland reconciled his principles in the only way he knew. He resigned. Regretfully, but with no hard feelings, the council of Nelson elected a new mayor, who thoughtfully set aside two seats for ex-Mayor Bland at the royal reception. The townsfolk doubted that Dickie would use them, set, as they were, near those rifles. They even half hoped he wouldn't. "We don't agree with Dickie," said one Nelsonian, "but we like a man to stand up for his convictions...
Since the University fee covers only medical costs incurred during the school year, students who want protection for the entire year must turn to other forms of health insurance like Blue Cross and thus face the unwelcome prospect of a double expense. Moreover, the student who is forced to undergo a serious operation may find himself in acute financial difficulties under the present system. While his University fee pays for such expenses as ward costs in downtown hospitals, laboratory fees, and X-rays, it does not cover another major medical item, the surgeon's fee. And the current program...
Every year it happens that a few seniors, not more than three or four, are faced with the prospect of not graduating because of a lack of PT credits. Athletic Department rules require a "physically capable" boy to complete his physical training before graduation...
...present Democratic state of mind is quite different. The Democratic leaders start from the same assumption as the Republicans-that Eisenhower will run and will be almost impossible to beat. This is a discouraging and demoralizing prospect even for a party as vigorous as the 1954 elections proved the Democrats to be. Naturally, a Democrat in the position of National Chairman Paul Butler wants to keep alive the hope that Eisenhower will not run in 1956. After all, a national committee has to keep on collecting funds and holding out the hope of power and patronage...