Word: prospect
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fighting started in the streets, spread to vast Prospect Park, while hundreds of picnickers ducked for safety. Before the cops broke up the war, two boys had been wounded by bullets from a homemade .22-caliber "zip gun" and a third had been shot by a .32 revolver...
...Hampshire: John J. Heard '39; 116 Prospect St., Franklin...
...animal, when the market was overrun with speculators, the easy-come, easy-go war rich and black-marketeers. This time the bull had fattened on the cash of those who bought for investment-security buyers who were less interested in a short-term quick profit than in the prospect of good dividends for the long pull...
...communities from Kansas to Hawaii, who are having their first visions of rainsoaked land. Since 1946, when Dr. Vincent Schacfer of the General Electric Research Laboratories announced he had produced rain by scattering dry-ice particles in super-cooled clouds, experts and laymen alike have been enchanted by the prospect of tailor-made weather. Scores of amateurs have been up in the air ever since seeding clouds with everything from dry ice to corn flakes; one man claimed he fathered a storm with carbon dioxide from a fire extinguisher...
Freshest Face. At 67, bristle-haired, homespun Jim Duff had suddenly become a major power in the Republican Party and its freshest face in years. Some even talked of him as a presidential prospect; after all he was only one year older than Harry Truman himself.* The son of a Presbyterian minister, Jim Duff grew up among the rigs and hard-knuckled men of western Pennsylvania's oilfields. Trained as a lawyer, he made a fortune in wildcatting, lost it in the 1929 crash. A delegate to many a political convention but never a candidate until 1946, Duff campaigned...