Word: prospect
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...anyone who has elbowed through the early morning on Mott St., this crisis signals the end of one of New York's most colorful institutions. On Hester and Thompson Streets, Belmont Avenue and Prospect Place the cries of hawkers competed with the horns of frustrated motorists, tomatoes and fishtails decorated the curbs, and the hand-scale reign undisputed. In the hot days of July ices-and-syrup went at a nickel a cup to kids tossing a Spaulding above heads too busy to notice them, and in December the chestnut men huddled in doorways while their cookers sent up thin...
...projects, grain elevators, a flour mill and a bakery. The Russians' most conspicuously successful gesture in winning Afghan good will was paving the streets of Kabul-a project that had been turned down by the U.S. as economically unproductive. Despite signs that its rulers are worried at the prospect of sinking too deep into the Soviet embrace, nearly half of Afghanistan's foreign trade is now with Russia; when the time comes to begin paying off the Russian loans in Afghan products, the percentage will rise even higher...
...present freshman class there are more than 100 of these forced commuters who have little prospect of moving into the Houses, unless present over-crowding is reduced...
Conservative Republicans, e.g., Arizona's Senator Barry Goldwater, are planning to push their anti-Eisenhower brand of Republicanism even harder than before. There is little prospect that Senate Minority Leader William Knowland, with his mind on his campaign for the governorship of California, will be able or even willing to make the two-wings of the G.O.P. fly together to produce a unified force. And Knowland's heir apparent for the leadership, Illinois' Everett Dirksen, is still not quite sure which wing he wants to fly with...
...Little White Ball. Nikita has made the most of his shiny new rockets, in hand or in prospect. Just before the NATO summit meeting, Russia showered the U.S.'s allies with letters threatening destruction if they accepted U.S. missiles. "We do not want to continue the arms race," Nikita told visiting U.S. Publisher William Randolph Hearst Jr. "We have already won over you. Your cities and bases could be stricken from the face of the earth. Your overseas bases are yours, but they are surrounded by the peoples of those countries. You will see?one day they will awaken from...