Word: prospect
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Gloomy Prospect. The failure of Ike's first budget speech (TIME, May 27) dismayed White House staffers, who had expected the chief, once he really started fighting, to send his opponents reeling. To some, the prospect of changing many minds on foreign aid ("the global dole") looked equally gloomy. Only one day before last week's speech, New Hampshire's Styles Bridges, ranking Republican on the powerful Senate Appropriations Committee, told a businessmen's cut-that-budget rally in Chicago that he was "fed up with global do-gooders who want to see us spend...
...workshop, students gleefully lay into Engle's poems with the master's own tools of cutting criticism. But few critics carp at his ability as a teacher, and no one doubts his talents as a recruiter of potential poets. Even British Poet Stephen Spender has referred a prospect to him. Englemen wrote fully one-third of the poems in Poets Under Forty, to be published this summer by the Meridian Press. And Henry Rago, editor of Poetry magazine, says: "No poet in the U.S. has done as much for young poets as Paul Engle...
Faulkner had never before settled at a college and spoken his mind. At first, neither he nor the university knew how the experiment in communication would turn out. Students were warned not to intrude on his personal life or ask for autographs. The prospect of facing a roomful of students terrified Faulkner...
...best-we-can speech, he got an urgent call from House Minority Leader Joe Martin. That evening Joe Martin was ushered upstairs to the President's study and bluntly told Ike that the House Appropriations Committee was about to make heavy Defense bill slashes. Really shocked at the prospect of a crippling cut-perhaps as much as $2.5 billion-Ike determined to toughen his speech...
...second battle of Gettysburg spread north and west at week's end, there was no prospect that it would be nearly as conclusive as the not altogether conclusive first one. That was the fun of the fight. It was, as North Carolina's Durham Herald noted, "one of those tempests in a teapot in which Americans delight to engage. It gives them a chance to argue without paving to decide, to debate without some vital result depending on the outcome...