Word: prospect
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that the batsmen wear pads on their legs and have special half-gloves for their hands. Bowlers can generate terrific speeds with their curious stiff armed bowling (they are not allowed to throw). A fast bowler takes a run of up to twenty paces before delivering each ball--the prospect of a fast bowler bearing down on one is appalling...
Last week the news of MacArthur's dismissal jolted the market, but only temporarily. Next day it jumped up again. Reasons for optimism: the U.S. Treasury is still running a surplus, and there is no immediate prospect of bigger corporate taxes. With civilian production high despite the arms program, profits are still impressive...
Skyhook balloons normally reach a height of more than 50 miles, but 'Poonsters last night were apparently unruffled at the prospect of Osborne's elevation. It was reported by one source within the 'Poon that Osborne would be dropped at the last moment and a dummy substituted. Osborne is a noted short-distance swimmer...
...Communist buildup of battle strength continued-in Korea and beyond Korea-the prospect of a massive Red strike against the U.N. forces became constantly more imminent. Allied intelligence had tracked three Chinese armies-100,-ooo men, more or less-up from South China to Manchuria, and from Manchuria to Korea. The number of enemy troops in Korea had increased to an estimated 600,000. Of these, the number immediately in front of Ridgway's units had dwindled from 150,000 to 115,000-indicating the classic Communist pullback for regrouping before an offensive...
...more than 50 miles wide, disclosed that new enemy airfields, capable of handling bombers as well as fighters, were being constructed rapidly. A report got around that 3,000 Soviet airplanes were in the area. The Pentagon called this estimate exaggerated, but military men were gravely concerned with the prospect that the enemy might be getting set, at last, to challenge U.N. supremacy...