Word: prospect
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...refrained from proposing or endorsing. But as John Foster Dulles left for London, he warned: the U.S. will no longer "gamble [its] safety and survival on arrangements and programs that have no reasonable prospect." The U.S., in other words, wanted what Eden's proposal offered-German sovereignty and a German army operating within NATO...
...there were other obstacles equally imposing. Many a British businessman, for example, has never been completely comfortable with the idea of giving up the "protection" of a controlled currency. Lancashire mill owners shrink at the thought of cheap Japanese cloth on British counters: British automakers shudder at the prospect of all those gleaming U.S. monsters invading their safe home market. Said one business man: "Things are going along fine right now, and as long as there is all this uncertainty, why rush into changed situations...
...seems likely that Cowles, a wingback last season, will remain at the fullback post, at least through Saturday's opener. It was announced yesterday that one of the important candidates for the position, George MacDonald, will not be released in time by the medical staff. Another fullback prospect whom Jordan had counted upon, junior Bill Volmer, reinjured his knee in pre-season and has been forced to give up the sport for this year at least...
...recognized, the U.S. lost its long security against heavy enemy attack; it became the first in the line of paramount nations to live in the knowledge that between any nightfall and morning a fifth of its people and a third of its production centers could be destroyed. Over this prospect the U.S. does not grieve or tremble. In a field of tension between unprecedented poles of security and insecurity, this superlatively blessed and threatened people stands with apparent aplomb. Mrs. Clark would be proud of her countrymen...
TRADITION-DIRECTION is the way social character is formed in societies without prospect of much technological or population change. In such circumstances, each generation feels (usually correctly) that the next generation will live much as it lives. The life of the father is exposed to the son in daily living. This is supplemented by training in the etiquette of specific situations in which the son is sure to find himself. All of Asia has been trained in this way-and all of Europe was, down to the Renaissance-Reformation period. Then, in Western Europe, complex and interdependent factors-population growth...