Word: prospect
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Northeastern's main strength will probably be in the 1000, where they have two men returning from last year and a good freshman prospect. The Huskies will count heavily on several first year men to help make the meet interesting...
...most instances the servicemen's weddings were not 'shot gun affairs';" Sperry declared. "The boys married girls whom they had known for a long time. They were not weddings which men had hurried or imitations of friendship . . . I was greatly reassured of the prospect that these marriages would last...
...powerfully impressed by the consequences of crime. If he ever became a judge, he told his friends, he would try reforming young troublemakers by showing them the prison. Last week, after four months as judge of the district court in Tulsa, Johnson decided that he had a likely prospect for his theory of crime therapy: a pallid stickup man named Jim Kimbrell...
...Taft holds out no prospect of "agreement among nations," and he effectively attacks proposals for world government. How, then, does the U.S. proceed to foster law and justice? Taft approves of propaganda for liberty, but seems to have little feeling for the kind of action that gives such propaganda force and body. For instance, he repeatedly says that the U.S. should not offer aid to countries which are not willing to aid themselves; he does not recognize that in many instances the offer of U.S. aid is the best propaganda for liberty and that it creates in other countries...
Once more optimists' hopes soared, and once more pessimists expected those hopes to be dashed. The pessimists not only had past performances on their side, but a prospect of visible troubles ahead-the enormous difficulty of negotiating a truce supervision arrangement with inspection-shy Reds, and the exchange-of-prisoners problem, now sharpened by front-page talk of Communist atrocities (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS). If these mountainous obstacles could be overcome in the short span of 30 days, it would be one of the diplomatic wonders of the cold...