Word: prospect
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...during the Cologne Offensive. Said TIME: "Nothing in the immediate prospect before Omar Bradley directly suggested the end of a war, or even the end of a campaign. But in the eye of his keen, analytical mind General Bradley could see beyond the belching, jerking guns, the wallowing tanks, the struggling infantrymen. The armies on the south flank of the Allied Line were moving faster than he, because they were exploiting a weakness which already existed. Bradley was busy creating a weakness-one which may be fatal to Germany...
...Korea this week, with the U.S. defense position breached and envelopment threatened from the flanks, the prospect that had been clearly visible last fortnight became even more imminent: a further series of withdrawals from the Kum River to a relatively short perimeter around the port of Pusan...
...China), it would be the height of recklessness to be sucked out of position by committing all the U.S. strength in the area to the Korean battle. On the other hand, MacArthur did not intend to be pushed off the Korean peninsula and to be left with the appalling prospect of having later to mount an amphibious attack on Korea from Japan...
...went a contract to make 3,900 "Eager-Beaver" heavy-duty trucks for the Army at a cost of $24 million. But since both orders had been on the books before war's outbreak, and no new ones had been placed, automakers thought there was not yet any prospect of a cutback in civilian auto production; cars rolled off assembly lines last week at a record clip of 70 a minute...
...would boost synthetic-rubber production by about 20% and bring total production to about 500,000 tons a year, enough to handle all civilian and military needs, barring global war. But it would also use up heavy supplies of benzene, a component of synthetic rubber, and thus create the prospect of shortages for industries which also use benzene in making nylon, plastics and detergents...