Word: prospect
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Despite the prospect of losing sorely needed federal subsidies (for free school lunches, vocational courses), the Mississippi house of representatives nevertheless passed the amendment on three successive days as required by state law. Final vote: 105-14. The state senate prepared to follow suit; already the measure had been endorsed by 33 of 49 senators. On Dec. 21 the amendment will be submitted to the state's voters in a special election...
...prosecution settled for a plea of guilty to second-degree manslaughter. Last week when Lena came up for sentencing (maximum term: 15 years), Queens County Judge Peter Farrell paroled her until Feb. 18, with the prospect of full freedom thereafter. She gasped. Outside the court demure Lena Nien stedt, beginning a new life at 25, smiled radiantly. "It's wonderful to see the open sky," she said. All she wanted for the present was a juicy steak, for the future a secretarial job and peace of mind. Then she saw her estranged mother standing near by. Lena...
...today. There are even more ominous symptoms and similarities. Whenever the Nazis were ready for another expansion, they charged their opponents with provocations . . . The Communists adopt the same tactics and accuse our American allies of 'provocation' off the Chinese coast. Again the tactic is to gauge the prospect of adventure by the amount that we will swallow . . . A new war may arise from the old impression of British gullibility. Untimely affabilities increase that impression, and are therefore hard on the rest...
This way of life continued until "something deep down inside him suddenly changed ... A cool moonlight night, a verdant prospect, pretty women, sweet music began to move him profoundly. Whenever he was moved by beauty, he wanted to be alone with his joy." The picture of a Burmese society girl, ripped from a newspaper, was U Nu's talisman, inspiring him "to do good deeds, champion the weak, subdue the oppressors...
Rummy & the Races. Fast-thinking, tough-talking Judson Sayre has been a crack salesman most of his life. He worked his way through Columbia University by selling salesmanship courses, once told a wavering prospect: "If you can't make up your mind faster than that, the course won't do you any good." (He made the sale...