Word: prospect
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Boom? Meanwhile, the Stock Exchange has campaigned hard to sell common stocks just as the supply was being diminished by the influx of such buyers as pension funds and investment trusts, who take the stock off the market. The death of the excess-profits tax, easy money, and the prospect of continued fat dividends as well as lower taxes on them-have also made stocks look like better buys...
Templer saw plainly that there could be no real prospect of uniting and strengthening Malaya unless its people, of all races, had the hope of political freedom. With the full approval of the British government, he junked the outmoded notions of imperialism and promised, in their place, that "Malaya will become, in due course, a self-governing nation . . . within the British Commonwealth." Templer pushed through a constitutional revision which will 1) permit national elections, 2) give the National Assembly a narrow majority of elected (over appointed) members. In principle, at least, the new constitution is a big step towards nationhood...
Steadily, uranium fever mounted. Some 1,300 claims were filed on lands in the surrounding desert and mountains. Outsiders came to Kanab to prospect, and among them was Leroy Albert Wilson, 62, a brawler, an inventor, a Mormon excommunicated for defending polygamy and the leader of a strange band of men and women. Last week Wilson was found on his left side, lying on a sandy, sunny slope, a Geiger counter still clicking in his right hand. Six .45-caliber slugs had torn great holes in his back and head. He was the first man to be dry-gulched...
...holding out the hope that the Geneva negotiations might save Britain from tangling with the Communists, he had the hearty backing of those who instantly related talk of military action to the catastrophic prospect of superbombs falling on Britain...
...that eventually may be just as bad. For the past nine months, as a French resident put it recently, "Morocco has been living in an acute state of siege." Others called the ironhanded regime of the Resident General, Old Soldier Augustin Guillaume, a "police state," and even saw a prospect of civil...