Word: prospect
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Prospect. In Fuquay-Varina, N.C., E. T. Burchett, auto salesman, explained to police why he chased an armed bandit who had just robbed a bank of $12,000: "I wanted to sell him a car and I knew he had some money...
...years ago NATO commanders rubbed their hands at the promising prospect opened by the Paris treaties allowing Germany to rearm. Bonn promised NATO the manpower for 1,326 planes in 20 wings by 1960. But last week, two years after the go-ahead on rearmament, 18 months after pilot training began, the new Luftwaffe was still on the ground. The "few" were now Germans. The German Air Force (or "jaff," as the Americans pronounce it) boasts only 50 trained jet pilots, half of them base-bound as instructors, the rest aloft in a lone F-84 fighter squadron. A spare...
Latter-day classicists have summoned up a nostalgic vision of classic Rome as an uncluttered prospect of soaring marble temples, each as immaculate as a white plaster model. The reality of the marketplace was far different. Most of its buildings were built of brick, wood and dingy stone until almost the beginning of the Christian era. The city itself, with a population that surpassed present-day Rome's 1,750,700, squeezed into an even smaller circumference, was a terrifying tangle of pedestrians, soldiers, horses, lurching sedan chairs and carts...
...architecture and a prime example of unified English town planning. The younger Wood's supreme gambit was to take one elliptical segment of the oval form that Bernini used for St. Peter's Square, and throw it boldly along the city's outskirts, with an open prospect of unspoiled countryside. Binding together the 30 individual houses was a curtain wall modeled on a Palladian façade with its Ionic columns; behind it, Wood allowed for a variety in depth to the buildings to suit each owner's demands...
...Players are familiar to Cambridge audiences, and the high quality of their productions is well-established. But no regular University group has yet ventured into summer productions, and the prospect of seeing an amateur group stacked against professional summer stock was, to say the least, interesting. After viewing Monday night's opening, one cannot say that the Players are of professional quality, but one hastens to emphasize that they bring to the stage a freshness and gayety which is both the very essence of G & S and the basis of successful amateurism...