Word: prospect
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Prospect that Yale might return some of its 14,900 seat allotment out of the total 37,900 seats in the Stadium appeared very slight. "I'm going to keep following it up, but Yale has indicated I should not expect any back," Lunden said...
Possible presidential ambitions aside, Dewey certainly has no desire to lose his position of leadership in the Republican Party. As a bulwark of liberal Republicanism, he cannot relish the prospect of party control passing to his long-time antagonists, the midwestern Republicans...
Meanwhile, the New York State Republican party faces the prospect of an internal struggle for power. For it is questionable whether Dewey can hope to retain even a portion of his earlier political influence. A retiring governor ordinarily has little enough power in the state organization, even if he is able to select his successor. But a governor whose hand-picked candidate goes down to defeat is likely to find himself a political outcast. The result may be a dangerous power vacuum within the state party...
There is an undeniable temptation to approach the announcement about football games and alcohol with distended check. The conjured prospect of policemen taking exploratory swigs from every coffee thermos does not lend itself to a straightforward discussion of the ruling and the reasons...
...live up to their billing. Oregon's George Shaw, a steady senior sensation who can do anything on the football field, personally accounted for more than half the 2,072 yds. his team had gained by midseason. Army, after its slow start, came up with an All-America prospect in its acrobatic end, Don Holleder. The University of Miami, hopping mad because the N.C.A.A. peeked around its blinders and imposed punishment for overenthusiastic recruiting, has been pulverizing its opposition. Oklahoma, still addicted to exasperating fumbles, still keeps winning...