Word: prospect
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...WHRB would explore the possibility of becoming a commercial FM station should the news FCC ruling make it reduce present operations. Commission regulations, however, would call for 12 months a year operation under this plan, and McElroy was not certain whether this was possible. He also ruled out the prospect of obtaining an AM broadcast channel for the station or the addition of television facilities...
Faced with a Republican-backed move to bobtail the Army-McCarthy hearings, Committee Chairman Karl Mundt sighed over the prospect of continuing with "this miserable business." But Mundt reluctantly cast the deciding vote against the motion when Army Secretary Robert Stevens said curtailment would be unfair. The decision to go on with public hearings cleared the way for an important witness: Army Counselor John Adams, who had acted as the Army's liaison man with the McCarthy investigating subcommittee...
Despite its phoniness-or perhaps because of it-this is just the sort of plot that appeals to ostentatious writers and directors. They glow with the prospect of putting seven people in a situation that is both temporally and spatially confined, and then developing their characters. The amount of character that can be developed when you have 104 minutes to split up among seven characters is at best small, and it is no wonder that for the most part the big names involved in Executive Suite are propping up card-board people...
Phil Williams, the best mile prospect the Crimson has had in recent years, broke his own freshman mark for that event yesterday with a 4:22.2 time. This eclipses his time of 4:27.1 set earlier this spring...
...Bidault walked into the Palais des Nations to face his triumphant enemies. He was pale, but he spoke with bitter eloquence. "The decisive assault in a gloriously unequal battle, carried on for 55 days, was launched on the very eve of the date set for this Geneva meeting whose prospect alone should normally have silenced cannon," he said. "We have already known sudden massacres on the morrow of peaceful negotiations, and this is not the first time that actions cruelly give the lie to words. It is not our side that wanted a hardening of the fighting-to the extent...