Word: prospect
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Soviets does not warrant much optimism." Still, the West intends, "in good faith, to seek some advance, even if small, toward a just peace." The U.S. is willing to go on to the summit if the Geneva meeting gives "some promise that a summit meeting would have a reasonable prospect of advancing the cause of peace." Afterward, "official spokesmen" passed the word that the West would not go to the summit at all if the Russians made any move to alter the German situation unilaterally...
...unpack the package" by throwing out a series of isolated counterproposals, each designed to catch the fancy of one of the Western powers and to horrify the others. (Example: an appeal for a mutual reduction of armed forces in central Europe, which would hold out to Britain the prospect of dismantling her costly Army of the Rhine, but would strike France and West Germany as the forerunner to U.S. military withdrawal from Western Europe.) Aware of the West's well-publicized failure to formulate any agreed-upon "fallback" positions, the Soviets could thus hope to set the four Western...
Even in these dorms, the prospect of "expanded families" will present problems of living space, the dean indicated. The Browns are expecting their first child in the fall...
...traditional argument that American industry should be protected in case there is a war simply does not hold here. The instruments can be produced by companies with little experience in the field, even if some immediate and overwhelming need did develop--an improbable prospect anyway...
Despite continued discussion, members of the Administration and House Masters have not yet agreed on a general plan for non-Honors tutorial in the Junior and Senior years. Dean Bundy recently indicated that establishment of such a program by next Fall is an "unlikely" prospect...