Word: prospect
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...guided missile: Snark, a lumbering air-breather that cannot break the sound barrier but can dump a thermonuclear payload (as it proved in a flight test last week) on a target less than five miles in diameter at a range of 5,000 miles. A really hot Air Force prospect is Rascal, an air-to-ground missile for firing from B-47s that can hit a target at supersonic speed and 100-mile range. One of Tommy White's biggest decisions to come: whether to develop another round of bombers to replace the B-58, or to wait...
First of all, the security officials are on the whole second rate civil service or military personnel with no scientific training. And there is no prospect of improving the calibre of such employees because of the basic boredom and unattractiveness of the work...
Studio One: Less a play than a mood piece, The Bend in the Road nonetheless offered some good acting and a grown-up theme: how an elderly minister and his wife adjust to the prospect of sitting out the rest of their lives. Onetime Glamour Boy Franchot Tone, 51, donned whiskers and did his husky-voiced best to play a spry octogenarian fighting the years. Cathleen Nesbitt was fine as his gentle wife. But Playwright John Vlahos never crystallized in a dramatic moment just why the minister surrendered to a tranquil life and moved off to a home...
Like many of his readers who felt that his nimble style was showing signs of middle-aged spread at Hearst's board, Columnist Caen was delighted at the prospect of returning to the free-and-easy atmosphere of his old paper. Grinned he: "I guess I'm a Chronicle snob...
...prospect of a 100th birthday for anyone is formidable. Such a celebration for a literary magazine is equally imposing and deserving of the same bewildered respect popularly bestowed for longevity. The occasion, though solemn, can be festive. It should betoken new life...