Word: prospect
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...NATO Standing Group in Washington: "I find the disparity between our available forces and those which the Soviet rulers could bring against us so great . . . that a full-scale soviet attack within the near future would find Allied Command . . . critically weak . . . Our progress is insufficient ... to give us acceptable prospect of success if attacked...
...sent a message to the Turks offering to withdraw 1) Russian claims on Turkish territory, 2) demands for a share in the military control of the Bosporus and the Dardanelles. Both proposals, in effect, add up only to a renunciation by the Russians of something which they have no prospect of gaining anyway (short of a war); nonetheless, Churchill regarded Molotov's message to an ancient enemy as perhaps the most important single gesture since Stalin's death...
...stainless steel. But as Wilson's program expands production, nobody doubts that U.S. ingenuity and research will whittle down the cost, just as magnesium's cost has been whittled from $5 in 1915 to 27? a pound in 1953. In that prospect glows the promise of a great new U.S. industry...
Even among white families eager to give lip service to racial equality, the prospect of having a Negro move into the house next door will often bring qualms about declining property values and a panicky urge to sell out fast. Last week one group of Philadelphia families fought back in a novel way against sellout fever...
...veteran Alpinist, Benuzzi conceived the scheme of walking out of the poorly guarded camp, scaling Mount Kenya, and then-since there was little prospect of getting back to Italian-controlled areas-of blandly returning to captivity. His scheme had no practical end: it was simply Benuzzi's idea of self-expression...