Word: prospect
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...anti-Communist blood bath was in prospect. Arbenz and his top cronies were mostly safe in embassy asylum and likely to get out of the country scot free (see below). Two ranking Communists-Carlos Manuel Pellecer and Victor Manuel Gutierrez-had quit embassies and joined a third, Alfredo Guerra Borges, in hiding. They might try to make backlands trouble for Castillo Armas, if they were willing to risk being caught and shot. Two thousand minor suspects were held for questioning in jails just vacated by the anti-Communists Arbenz kept there...
Until the diplomatic machinery had time to work, any prospect of speedy peace was left squarely up to Diaz and Castillo Armas, with the U.S.'s Peurifoy to lend his good offices for a ceasefire...
...made himself France's new Premier, he breathed new life (and danger) into the expiring Geneva Conference, and he revived the prospect of a negotiated settlement in Indo-China. He brought a transfusion of young, fresh blood into the trouble-hardened arteries of French government. He ended the long postwar dominance of France by the Catholic M.R.P. party, whose two leaders, Robert Schuman and Georges Bidault. have served as Foreign Secretary through 18 different postwar Cabinets. He promised to break the deadlock over EDC that has so long undercut the strength and frayed the tempers of the Western alliance...
...cold, cruel prospect is that the free world is close to another big retreat before Communism. To pretend that the Communist diplomatic and military gains are insignificant would be the worst kind of self-deceit. The U.S. can gain its greatest strength and unity if it clearly recognizes that the Communists are being appallingly successful, clearly understands that there is not much leeway left for further retreat...
...Britain, where the month of June holds the best prospect of good weather, Queen Elizabeth II, who actually turned 28 last April, celebrated her official birthday in the old monarchic tradition. Sitting sidesaddle on a big chestnut horse named Winston, and decked out in the scarlet and blue uniform of Colonel-in-Chief of the Coldstream Guards, she watched the Trooping the Color ceremony on London's Horse Guards parade ground. Later, the Queen proclaimed the fifth honors list of her reign. Among the 2,500 British and Commonwealth citizens on the roster: old (80) Author Somerset Maugham...