Word: prospect
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...conference, Dulles, of all the NATO ministers, sounded the least pessimistic about summit prospects, had all the appearances of being Old Mr. Flexible himself and was virtually being warned by his colleagues not to display too much eagerness to rush into talks on Moscow's terms. On the record, Dulles was still declaring the U.S. willingness to meet with the Russians if there should be any prospect of settling anything...
John Foster Dulles was born in the antiseptic glare of a North American hospital. He was a homo sapiens, and was well raised. He worked on Wall Street, which is somewhere between Prospect Park and the Bronx Zoo. He liked Giant Pandas, Wall Street Bulls, and trial balloons. There was every reason to believe that he would like Hermione Esmerelda and that Hermione Esmerelda would like...
...Communist domination truly preferable to the prospect of nuclear war? Has the freedom for which we live suddenly become a thing not valuable enough...
...Jersey's Governor Robert Baumle Meyner knows that a presidential prospect can look like Cinderella, but he must also have a sure touch with the fairy godmother's political wand. Bob Meyner was Cinderellegant last November; he swept to a second term at Trenton with the highest vote total (1,000,000) ever registered by a New Jersey Democrat (TIME, Nov. 18). And last week his political wand struck sparks. Winner in a tight battle for the Democratic nomination for U.S. Senator: handpicked, hand-pushed Meyner Candidate Harrison A. Williams...
...Malley agrees with the diagnosis. But rebuilding the team, he argues, was impossible so long as his base of operations was the stained and gloomy pile of masonry hard by Prospect Park. "Look at it this way," says he. "Brooklyn draws a million people. Milwaukee draws two and a quarter million. Results: 1) they can pay their players more; 2) they can absorb more farm club losses; 3) they can have more front-office talent; 4) they can buy more bonus players. The momentum is Milwaukee's. Obviously, we have deteriorated into a noncontending ball club. I decided that...