Word: prospect
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...JOHN KENNEDY has long counted on the California presidential primary as his best chance to show dramatic vote-getting talents. But a Brown victory would shut Kennedy completely out of California. If Brown wins, he will almost automatically become a favorite son candidate for President-and a genuine hot prospect for the Democratic nomination for Vice President. And although both he and Kennedy are Roman Catholics, that very fact would keep them from ever being on the same ticket...
...below) to take a stern stand against Peking's new claim to a twelve-mile limit, publicly announced that it "fully shared" U.S. concern over events in the Formosa Strait. But in private, British Foreign Office spokesmen made no bones of their lack of enthusiasm at the prospect of active U.S. participation in defense of the offshore islands...
...protect them from rebel reprisals. Then, bone tired, he canceled plans for a tour of the Algerian interior and set off for Paris. On the day of his departure his recorded voice boomed out over Radio Algiers, promising neither the right to independence to Algerian Arabs nor the prospect of "integration" with France to the French Algerian colons. A yes vote on his constitution, declared De Gaulle, "will mean at the very least that . . . one believes that Algeria's development should take place within a French framework...
...better jobs" did not materialize. Coach César Faz had another problem. Over the fall and winter all but one of his boys passed the Little League age limit of twelve, and he had to recruit a whole new team. But love of baseball, and the prospect of a trip to los Estados Unidos if they were good enough, served to draw the makings of another fine team. Last week in Williamsport, Pa., Monterrey was back for a crack at another World Series...
...outrun the possibilities. "There is some feeling that the American economy may, within the next few years, be engulfed by a speculative, inflationary burst involving a flight out of dollars and money assets and into tangible property, gold or equities. The odds do not seem to favor such a prospect at this time...