Word: prospect
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Martin, a return to the old rules might check a "destructive trend . . . toward bankruptcy and eventually a socialist state." Illinois' sharp-nosed Leo Allen, who pigeonholed the housing bill in the days when he ran the Rules Committee in the 80th Congress, held out an even brighter prospect. By voting on this one question, the House could decide "whether the entire Truman program will succeed or be defeated...
Kimball didn't rule out the prospect of future changes in the loyalty oath, however. The under secretary said that loyalty procedure is "under intermittent restudy and revision in the light of additional operating administrative experience...
...proved statistically in Professor S---'s Philosophy course that the American woman is a bitch.... Professor M--- reports that one night he was walking down Prospect Street (home of Princeton's social clubs) on a house party weekend. He noticed a boy and girl walking arm in arm, and overheard the male remark to his date, 'Don't you know that virginity is the most bizarre form of sexual perversion known...
...higher national output, the President was also prophesying ever-higher federal revenues to balance the budget and pay for the Fair Deal's expanding welfare programs. It was one thing to hope for higher revenues; it was another to depend wholly on it, while the Government jeopardized the prospect by spending, year after year, beyond its means (see below). The President's economic advisers estimated that the Fair Deal's social security and health programs would be costing $25 billion yearly by 1975. But by then, they said soothingly, the national output would...
...what we want-culture." Local 802 agreed to pay the Old Timers the minimum scale: $9.00 for one rehearsal, $30 a performance. By August the musicians had polished their work enough to give their first free concert for an audience of 4,000 in Brooklyn's Prospect Park...