Word: prospect
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...friends told him that his rank as a statesman in Washington would never pull him through the Democratic primary in Georgia next September. Every sounding indicated that ex-Governor (1948-54) Herman Talmadge, 42, who had not even announced his candidacy, was pulling far ahead. Unable to face the prospect of a wearing campaign in the searing heat of July and August, George last week made the painful decision: he would withdraw from the Senate race...
When Walter George entered the U.S. Senate he took the seat that had been occupied by a Southern demagogue of the old school, Thomas E. Watson. When George steps out, he almost certainly will relinquish that seat to a new kind of Southern partisan. Viewing the prospect, nearly every member of the U.S. Senate agreed last week with the Baltimore Evening Sun: "Few men could step into Senator George's shoes; Mr. Talmadge couldn't even shine them...
...natives who came upon a deserted railway tank car near Durban last week recognized the lettering "alcohol" on the car, but the prefix "methyl" meant nothing to them. Agog with the prospect of a gay weekend, they drained off 22 gallons of methyl alcohol still in the bottom of the tank and carried it off in a big black drum to be mixed into home brew. But first they decided to have a quick taste all around...
First, some further diminishing of the prospect...
...treat the prospect of success as being itself a present success, that could turn into an ultimate disaster." The fact of Communist tyranny still remains, e.g., the division of Germany, the feverish drive for nuclear weapons, the fomenting of trouble in the Middle East and Asia, and the "iron heel" on the captive countries of Eastern Europe. Then, turning the tables, he added: "We believe that the spirit which in the last decade has provided so many self-governing peoples with political independence ought also to operate peacefully to stimulate independence for those subject to the ruthless colonialism of Soviet...