Word: prospect
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Speaking at a medical soiree honoring him in Buffalo, New Orleans' famed Surgeon Alton Ochsner finally went all-out in his six-year battle against smoking, as the primary cause of lung cancer. Tobacco-shunning Dr. Ochsner's No. 1 shocker, raising a prospect of future U.S. smoke-easies: legal prohibition of smoking may become necessary if the incidence of lung cancer continues to increase at its present alarming rate...
Although this lone stand spawned the prospect of canceled U.S. aid and more austerity at home, Israel was in a state of patriotic excitement unparalleled since Israel's independence was proclaimed in 1948. In Tel Aviv, Jerusalem and Haifa, Israelis paraded by the thousands through the streets in mass protest "against the return of the Egyptian murderers to Gaza." At Nahal Oz, the Israeli settlement across from Egypt's old gun positions in the Gaza Strip (see box), delegates from 14 frontier communities passed a resolution against the "strangulation policy of the U.N. majority." For Orthodox Jews...
Thus intransigence fed intransigence. If there is no early settlement in the Middle East, the standing of both the U.S. and the U.N., as the key peacemakers, will suffer a serious blow. Even more serious is the prospect that the exchange across the Gaza Strip might once again shift from words to bullets and bombs...
...exciting, rewarding, and challenging form of life," is the prospect for the modern banker, remarked Gaylord A. Freeman, vice president of the First National Bank of Chicago, and the other panelists were equally optimistic...
...much of his time, that he can't possibly be thinking of anything else. "I tell them it isn't so," he says. "But of course, it is." If he decides to stop, he will probably be swayed less by the risk of loss or the dwindling prospect of gain than by the time he needs to write his Ph.D. dissertation and attend to his calling...