Word: prospect
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...short, no pact in prospect...
...because there was no land available with a clear title, and the old site on the mountainside was too dangerous. Then, one night, a great storm blew up. Next morning the old schoolhouse was a pile of lumber at the bottom of the creek, and there was still no prospect...
...Dismal Prospect...
Economy of Thought. The prospect of an even more unpleasant alternative to EDC seems to be working its yeasty chemistry on French public opinion. Last month Winston Churchill bluntly told the French that if they fail to ratify EDC, "we shall have no choice in prudence but to fall in with some new arrangement." Publicly, everyone concerned insists that no alternative to EDC is being contemplated. Konrad Adenauer has said: "With an economy of thought, I refuse to consider alternatives." Privately, he confesses to being as concerned as any Frenchman at a possible revival of German militarism, and wants...
Whether more carrots or more stick is now in prospect, no one knows. Walter Ulbricht went to Moscow again on Oct. 6, presumably for new orders. He is not back...