Word: prospect
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Eliot is not shy with friends but is inclined to be wary of strangers. Worried at the prospect of being interviewed by TIME'S Thomas Dozier for his cover story last week, the poet said to John Hayward, with whom he shares a flat in Chelsea:"This young man who's coming to see me from TIME, do you think it would get things off to a smooth start if I asked him if his family came from St. Louis? I once knew a family named Dozier in St. Louis...
...Prospect. As to the future, the following points can be made:¶ The Laborite majority is too small for effective government. The danger to the Labor government is not so much from desertion, because party discipline in Britain is much stronger than in the U.S. The graver danger is absenteeism, which is both customary and inevitable in the House of Commons. Some members of Parliament are also ministers. Their administrative duties often take them away from London. Illness can strike one side more than the other at a given time. Many M.P.s have other jobs, requiring their absence from...
...throw the Western world off its guard, cynical promises made to be broken, the indignant walkout when the negotiations got down to specifics. Or was it? Without any confidence at all that the U.S.S.R. could be trusted on anything, the free world, full of foreboding over the dreadful prospect of atomic war, waited to hear more. But it would have to hear a lot more before it paid any hopeful attention...
...diplomats talked and pondered in carefully guarded privacy. They discussed the value of an anti-Communist pact among southeast Asiatic countries, agreed they should not officially propose one, hoped unofficially that the Asiatics would write one themselves. They surveyed the prospect for U.S. economic and military aid to Indo-China, Thailand and Burma, the soft underbelly of non-Communist Asia. If they came to any solid conclusion, the same was locked tightly in Phil Jessup's briefcase for the slow return jaunt, via Europe, to Washington...
Whether his words were wise or not, Churchill had greatly strengthened the worldwide impulse for a final try, no matter how hopeless the prospect seemed, for an atomic agreement between the U.S. and Russia. The London Times was grateful: "It will no longer be possible for historians to write that the general election of 1950 was concerned with every question except the one that mattered...