Word: prospect
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sacrifice Goren's king. A club lead, enabling East to play through North's queen, would establish a third club trick on which East could discard his losing diamond. And a heart lead would let East trump in dummy, discarding the diamond. That left Goren with the prospect of breaking two rules that can be glibly quoted by every tyro: 1) never lead from a king, and 2) never leave an honor unguarded. Goren unblinkingly led the nine of spades. By violating two elementary rules of play, he made the only lead that, as the cards lay, could...
Eisenhower said there is seemingly "no present prospect of early resumption" of classes...
...strangulation by an acute shortage of foreign exchange. By week's end Desai had got the promise of i) $100 million in U.S. loans, and 2) $200 million in U.S. farm surpluses to be paid for in rupees. ¶ Japanese Foreign Minister Aiichiro Fujiyama was worried by the prospect that his country might be dragged involuntarily into a war between the U.S. and Red China. From Dulles, Fujiyama got assurances that the U.S. was ready to revise its 1951 mutual-security treaty, but failed to get what he really wanted: a Japanese veto over the deployment of U.S. forces...
Ever since Red China began baiting its bids for diplomatic recognition with the glittering prospect of trade, some Canadians have shown themselves surprisingly eager to swallow bait, hook and all. Most outspoken of the lot is Toronto's Globe and Mail, whose publisher. Oakley Dalgleish. recently returned from a tour of the Chinese mainland burbling with admiration for the Peking regime. Last week U.S. diplomats wondered if the pro-Peking line of Dalgleish and his fellow apologists might not be swinging the government in the same direction...
Hobby Into Career. The prospect of such spectacular savings in flight training was what spurred Ed Link to invent his first trainer more than 30 years ago while working in his father's piano-and-organ factory in Binghamton, N.Y. Link, whose hobby was flying, saw the need for a training device that would prepare flyers for flying before they had to take a real plane into the air. He and his brother George put together a plane-like gadget, offered to train all comers to fly at $85 a head (v. $25 to $50 per hour...