Word: prospect
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...station by an earnest, crew-cut platoon of giant collegiates, all chasing the butterfly culture with net, notebook, poison-bottle, pin and label, each with at least 36 terribly white teeth, and nursed away, as heavily gently as though he were an imbecile rich aunt with a short prospect of life, into a motorcar in which, for a mere 50 miles or so traveled at poet-breaking speed, he assures them of the correctness of their assumption that he is half-witted by stammering inconsequential answers in an over-British accent to their genial questions . . . He is then taken...
...women picketed the White House and blocked traffic on Pennsylvania Avenue in the fight for the right to vote. A century before, agitation even more violent preceded the struggle to remove property qualifications. Now, however, when a third great suffrage extension is in prospect, there is little strong feeling and no demonstration. If the 18-year-olds get the vote, it will come through no effort of their...
...that the investigation had turned into an pettifogging, time-wasting spectacle which was hurting the Republican Party, and lowering the prestige of Congress. Across the U.S., thousands of televiewers agreed with Vice President Nixon's view that the proceedings had reached the ridiculous stage. But there was little prospect that the hearings would ¹ improve or 2) end soon...
...dent Eisenhower, viewed Indo-China as "the cork in the bottle," to be held in place at all costs. Any such compromise settlement as partition of Indo-China, he argued, could only result in ultimate Communist capture of the whole country. Meanwhile, the Chinese Reds showed signs that the prospect of Western military action in Southeast Asia had them worried...
...China's leaders are already tightening controls, increasing rationing measures and trying to prepare against the pressures of starvation. Not bothered with any sense of horror at the prospect of millions dying, they nevertheless must worry about the damage famine would wreak on the precious industrialization program and the problems of internal control it would raise...