Word: prospect
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Allies Depart. So unrestrained was McCarthy's declaration of war on Eisenhower that speculation immediately began to bubble about the prospect that Joe intended to lead a third party in the 1956 presidential race. To reporters who asked about this, Joe said: "I have no interest whatsoever-at the present time -in a third party. I intend to work in the Republican Party." With this parting statement, Joe and Jean left Washington for a vacation at an undisclosed place...
America's fence in the sky is going up fast. This year the Administration approved an added $1 billion for air defense, and more increases are in prospect. The estimated cost now runs to more than $4 billion a year. With the money, General Chidlaw can give the U.S. a growing margin against calamity; he can promise no more. "It is better," says Ben Chidlaw, quoting an old Cheyenne chief, "to have less thunder in the mouth and more lightning in the hand...
Sometimes one member of the team arrives late for game, and when this happens, they are usually faced with the prospect of playing one man short. At Princeton last fall just such a prospect was looming on the horizon, with 14 men on the field at kick-off time. All was not lost, however, as the fifteenth man arrived and changed in midfield, protected by a huddle of his teammates...
Expansion of the College is an exciting prospect. But Boylston's new roof, as Eliot pointed out, sacrificed beauty to function. The problem now facing the College in whether it can likewise expand its facilities without sacrificing the graceful lines of the traditional Harvard education...
With a cultured snort at reports that he would soon perform in a Las Vegas pleasure dome for $35,000 a week, British Playwright Noel Coward, in the U.S. ostensibly to browse around Broadway, showed a bittersweet regard for the prospect of such easy money: "I keep on getting offers, and what I am offered is often trebled by the press, which gives me a lovely false feeling of prosperity." But Las Vegas nonetheless holds a certain attraction for Coward, who has long lived opulently by his wits: "They do pay the most extraordinary kind of money...