Word: prospect
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...supertankers. For the present, defense mobilizers say that Europe will have to pay dollars for the oil, but for the long pull ways could be found to advance financial aid so that Europe's industry can keep rolling and the NATO area remain viable. Most hopeful prospect: the Administration is planning to channel most Western Hemisphere oil through the 17-nation Organization for European Economic Cooperation. Thus, while handling the short-term emergency, the U.S. is helping to advance the long-term concept of an economically integrated Western Europe...
When the Six Senators of the Democratic Apocalypse first announced their intention of carrying out the Democratic platform come hell or high water, there was initially much confusion and consternation in the ranks. The idealists were overjoyed. But the practical party-liners were aghast at the prospect of utter destruction of Democratic unity on essential bills in the Senate. The latest move of the liberal Democrats, however, in forming a twenty-star Committee outside the House should be both idealistic and practical enough to satisfy both sides...
...prospect for 1957: opposition from Texas' Lyndon Johnson, Senate Majority Leader; a long spiel, many leaps and bounds, and more nothing...
Disaffection among high army officers has plagued Aramburu ever since he came to power a year ago. Most ominously, a segment of ultranationalistic top officers, scoffing at Aramburu's ban on military candidacies, has been cheering on a dissident, unassigned general named LeÓn Bengoa as a prospect for presidential elections late next year. The mass firings gave this group a brief surge of hope: Bengoa and some cronies quickly tried to touch off an army uprising...
...issuing of the joint committee findings follows years of deep questioning of the whole "bicker" system--through which sophomores are hastily picked for membership in the 17 plush undergraduate eating clubs that line Prospect Street. The alumni-controlled club system, with its strong hold on undergraduate life, maintained by a monopoly over upperclass social and dining facilities, has been criticized as an island of outside interference within the University...