Word: prospect
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...their records, none of the surviving candidates looks remotely like the combination of executive, spokesman and man-in-the-public-eye which a mayor of New York should resemble. Prospect for the petrified forest: little or no change...
...however, Miller asked Lautner to let him resign from the force: he had been suspected of Communist activity, had been shunted to a harmless police post near Prospect Park. Brooklyn, and was afraid his wife was about to betray him. Lautner refused to let him quit: if New York's Communist-dominated American Labor Party gained more political power. Miller might well have become police commissioner. The Communist lieutenant accepted the verdict, stayed faithfully on duty until the department finally gathered enough solid evidence to cite him for trial. But Miller disappeared in a flash after that, and last...
...prospect of death he learned to ac cept, and he seldom talked about it. But he could gripe about the hardships. Each echelon claimed that the men to the rear were "fat" with luxuries. The man on the line envied the man at battalion because he usually slept on a cot and lived in a tent and had three hot meals a day. Battalion thought regiment "had it made" because there the men rode around in jeeps. The soldier assigned to regiment wished he was farther back at division, where it was safer, where there were showers, Korean houseboys...
...served his time and left Korea. His outfit stayed on. There was no "duration" to limit or extend his stay. The veterans of World War II went home by the hundreds of thousands in the ranks of their outfits, with a sense of accomplishment and the prospect of a big welcome-maybe a parade. They had suffered and won. The veterans of Korea trickled back individually, with a sense of relief at being alive. They have merely suffered...
...plant without Government help. The use of plutonium and other radioactive products for medicine, industry, etc., will increase so fast that there will be a growing market for all the plutonium they can produce. Atomic energy now costs the U.S. taxpayers $1.8 billion a year, and there is little prospect that the burden will lessen under the present law. With private industry in the field, atomic energy will stop being only an enormous drain; commercial atomic projects will be taxable, and thus a source of revenue. And instead of being "always ten years away," industrial atomic power will...