Word: prospect
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Such aggressive salesmanship, if applied everywhere, should have a stimulating effect on the economy.' "Which car would Weeks buy and when? Reported Bookman: "Like any canny sales prospect, Sinclair Weeks so far has just smiled and kept his own counsel...
...left behind him a new, warm memory of Panditji, the old Freedom Firster of the Gandhi days, a much better electoral prospect, and a crop of reports that he was contemplating unneutral action in the unlikely event that the Communists won. "It is a straight fight," one of his Cabinet ministers said, "and if the Communists win, we cannot allow them to rule...
...while objective tests can simply be run through machines. It is probable, however, that only a few students, say not more than ten or fifteen percent of a class, would be interested in taking the tests. They would know that only a few exemptions would be given, and the prospect of a three-hour examination during the busy freshman week would discourage all but those who felt reasonably sure of their knowledge of a field. Certainly no one would be required to take the tests. The Committee on General Education could publish lists of requirements, stating exactly what material must...
...Democrat Guy Mark Gillette, 75, said he had formerly hoped that "by the end of my present term the progress toward world peace would be well advanced, but the goal is still far ahead of us." Because of this miscalculation, Minor Statesman Gillette reluctantly steeled himself to the prospect of carrying on with "the great unfinished work." Said he: "If the studies and experience of these many years have brought something of value, [it] belongs to the people of Iowa. I have no right to refuse to serve them further, if they wish...
...Five. When he is in Milwaukee Grant leaves his twelve-room, lakeview apartment on Milwaukee's fashionable Prospect Avenue (he owns the nine-story apartment house) every morning at 9:30. By 10, he is in his richly decorated office in the Journal's five-story building on Fourth and State Street. In meetings with his high command. Grant is as voluble as a Salvation Army brigadier at a mission meeting, acting out each part in the drama he creates. Once, in the middle of such a speech. Grant stopped, then bellowed: "I talk too goddamn much. Kick...