Word: prospect
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...least some of the same political assets that Earl Warren had. Widower Knight has two lovely blonde daughters, Carolyn, 20, a student at the University of Southern California, and Marilyn, 26, who is Mrs. Robert Eaton, wife of a Los Angeles attorney. Californians were immediately intrigued by the prospect that one of the daughters will serve as father's hostess and thus be the new first lady of California...
...also do not forget that Russia was on our side during the war, and suffered such human and material devastation that the prospect of another war must be even more hateful there than in the West...
...smaller than anticipated and the growing concern over Russia's possession of the superbomb seemed to guarantee no further cutbacks in the defense budget. With uncertainty over the arms program out of the way-and an easing of credit already taking place-it looked as if the immediate prospect was less one of deflation than a moderate amount of "reflation...
Halfback Frank Nardulli, a sophomore, is tabbed as the Raiders' "most promising backfield prospect"--as a freshman star, he scored nine touchdowns in five games...
Though Portland is already used to the word (it is in Multnomah County, and has both a Multnomah Hotel and a Multnomah College), most of the citizenry showed boredom or open hostility to the idea. Local officials seemed genuinely horrified at the prospect of the expense and bother involved. Cried another Portland writer, Richard L. Neuberger, in summing up the general reaction: "I think Neuberger is a hell of a name, too, but . . . I'm not going to change...