Word: prospect
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Toward Communism behind the Iron Curtain, the Pope's policy has been "pastoral," i.e., he has tried to get along with the Communist regimes as long as they allow the Church to perform even a minimum of its functions, in order to spare the faithful persecutions and the prospect of martyrdom. There is also a "muscular"' faction in the Church-among its spokesmen are Cardinals Ottaviani, Canali and New York's Spellman-which believes that the Red regimes are slowly strangling Catholicism in Eastern Europe, and that it might be better to take a tough line, even...
...Eastman Kodak and longtime NAMster in good standing. "But taxes can be reduced further only as expenditures are reduced." Folsom saw little hope for big cuts in spending; in fact, said he, with the excess-profits tax expiring and personal taxes about to be cut, there was already the prospect of a $7.5 billion deficit next year. In view of that, the Administration would oppose the cut in corporate-tax rates (from 52% to 47%) and the elimination of some excise taxes, both slated for April...
...most unsettling aspect of this similarity is the degree to which both depend for success on the same fact: the fact that a large portion of the public is so obsessed, in one case with the prospect of quick riches and in the other with detestation of Communism, that the baldest schemes and the wildest charges pass without a question. McCarthy's treatment of the China trade, his initial investment, is a good example. Understanding very well that the people are naturally troubled by the idea of one's allies trading with one's enemy, McCarthy has built himself...
...will be continued . . ." Then Laniel put the squeeze on the Deputies by submitting the resolution to a vote of confidence. This meant that, if the measure was voted down, not only would the government fall but the Assembly itself might be dissolved. The Deputies were properly horrified at the prospect of being prematurely ousted from their red plush seats in the Palais Bourbon...
...team's most promising prospect at present is football quarterback Jerry Marsh '55. Although Marsh is a newcomer to college refinery, Sweet feels he is making "very rapid progress" and should be regular before the season closes...