Word: prospect
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Then this prospect faded. Whatever meeting of minds the Senators may have had became a collision. Four reports by four different Senators began to circulate from office to office. At week's end Michi gan's Charles Potter enplaned for Europe and Chairman Mundt recognized the inevitable. He gave the factions of his hung jury nine days to submit separate verdicts. There would probably be at least five: one by each of the Republicans and one or more by the three Democrats. By the time these reports are in, the curtain will have gone up on Joe McCarthy...
...because the prospect of rearming Germany is painful to us, because to answer yes is cruel and to say no is unrealistic, can we beat about the bushes forever?" Mendes asked. His answer was proud and direct: "A great nation cannot bury its head in the sand when confronted by an unpleasant choice. It must face up, it must choose . . . We must have done with...
...sure, in a vital respect, to be an anticlimax. The finest hour of the Italian cinema was rung in with Open City (1946) and tolled out with Umberto D (1952), and every man of talent in the Italian movie industry knows it. Few are willing to give up the prospect of prosperity, but most are sad and just a little ashamed to see their pictures become more and more Hollywooden...
...plan was to shy like startled fawns. Some feared that it would mean federal absorption of the existing $4 billion-a-year federal and state highway program. The fact is that the President's "grand plan," as stated, would augment existing programs. Others were alarmed at the prospect of such a vast spending of federal funds. Actually, the President hopes the program will be largely self-liquidating in the long run, possibly through road tolls and gasoline taxes, and the states would share planning and authority, and probably the initial costs, with the Federal Government...
When the Republicans came in, Interior Secretary Douglas McKay did an about-face. The private company plan, said he, would supply power seven years before the Government could. Moreover, as a practical matter, the Interior Department had twice been turned down on dam funds, saw little prospect of getting them. (The Idaho Power application is now before the Federal Power Commission...