Word: prospect
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Also significant is the prospect of relieving congestion if busses and trolleys disappear and the Square ceases to be an all-day parking place for subway users. The improvement of service to outlying areas (currently there is only one train a day in each direction to Bedford) will greatly relieve the floods of automobiles that daily inundates Boston and Cambridge. The large parking and terminal facilities planned for the West Cambridge junction should also go a long way toward alleviating the Cambridge parking problem...
...prospect for next year, however, is considerably brighter. Wilson believes that the outcome will hinge on the play of this year's freshmen, and on finding a replacement for Harrington to join Donohue in the backcourt. Either Bowditch, Grayer, or Bill Richling will probably fill this important position...
...well knows that it would be relatively easy for the Communists to throttle this traffic by blandly claiming that any or all of the routes are under repair and impassable. This prospect has led to loose talk in Western capitals about spearheading a supply column through the roadblocks with U.S. tanks. No such plan gets serious consideration in the Pentagon. Reason: an armored column or train would be not only a diplomatic fiasco -in that the U.S. would seem to make the first warlike move-but a military absurdity as well. The four-lane Autobahn snakes along over no fewer...
...farm land-and listed it for expropriation at his own low tax valuation of $2,800,000. Egypt's $87 million for expropriated lands is already earmarked for other British claimants; furthermore, Smouha's solicitors were pressing a market-value claim of $30 million. Britain faced the prospect of having to pay for Nasser's single biggest expropriation of British landholdings out of its own resources. "Hoodwinked in a deal that had all the elements of the Middle East bazaar business," gasped London's News Chronicle...
...sense of the realities, has induced a change." A fervent Gandhian disciple, Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru added his persuasive voice by acknowledging that "a tremendous crisis might arise in the world with an indefinitely growing population." Noting that people in Europe and the Americas were "getting frightened at the prospect of the masses of Asia becoming vaster and vaster and swarming all over the place," Nehru conceded that it was "a legitimate fear...