Word: prospect
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Syria veers closer to the Soviets, other Arab nations will get the jitters at the prospect of seeing the Russians with an established base of operations in the heart of the Middle East. Even Egypt's Nasser, who has put his head farther into the Soviet noose than any other Arab leader except Hourani & Co., is obviously apprehensive...
Thus, at week's end, it was likely that the House would accept the Senate civil rights bill with one major amendment: the Senate provision requiring jury trials for all criminal contempt cases would be narrowed to include only those pertaining to voting rights. After that, the prospect was for President Eisenhower to sign the bill-probably with an accompanying message criticizing it and promising that the Republicans would be back next session with a stronger bill...
...above all psychologically, ready to use them-if deterrence fails. It takes a firm hand and steady nerves to face a small-war challenge, to resist the outcries against atomic weapons, and to confront the enemy with the choice of backing down or risking all-out war. Raising the prospect of such a challenge in advance is Kissinger's important service. At a time when public apathy, disarmament talk and budget-mindedness are being felt in the scales of U.S. policy. Auditor Kissinger has brought fresh ideas to weigh...
...Department of Justice. Already, secret testimony from Myra's husband Jack Soble has fingered two members of the ever-widening ring: onetime U.S. Army Intelligence Officer George Zlatovski and his wife Jane, now in Paris (TIME, July 22). According to U.S. officials, Jack Soble, tempted by the prospect of a lightened sentence, is still talking...
...Whitehall the hand-wringing over the prospect of killing anyone changed to hand-wringing over not bringing the silly little war to an end. At last, British military commanders ordered ground and aerial fire against the rebel stronghold of Firq, believed to be held by the Imam's brother, an ambitious scalawag named Talib bin Ali. British commanders also ordered bombing missions against the presumed stronghold of the Imam himself, a palm-ringed, fortified village called Nizwa, ten miles from Firq...