Word: prospect
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...would not willingly yield to smallpox," said Virginia's Governor J. Lindsay Almond Jr. at a news conference last week, "but I might get it." To Lindsay Almond, the prospect of white and Negro children attending school together was something like smallpox-and he clearly thought Virginia might...
Other big hotels are in prospect...
Pride Restored. The new Pope had already given dramatic evidence of this intention by his appointment last week of 23 new cardinals, expanding the college from its 372-year-old limit of 70 to a new strength of 75-with the prospect of still further expansion to come. Most significant result of the new appointments will be to strengthen the administrative machinery of the church-the Curia-which Pius XII, no man to delegate wide authority, had neglected during the last few years. The Curia now has 24 instead of 13 cardinals, and the overall Italian representation in the College...
...Christmas selling season started, retailers beamed last week at the prospect of record volume. The U.S. consumer, who has spent freely and faithfully all through the year's downs and ups, was opening his pocketbook as never before. Sales in the nation's chain stores scored the year's biggest gain in October, up 7.1% over October of 1957. For the first ten months, chain store sales topped the brisk 1957 pace...
With Eisenhower striving to cut overall federal spending, McElroy's remarks at an airport news conference by no means brightened the prospect of success...