Word: prospect
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...subjects more than to have him find the girl of his dreams-not merely for Rainier's happiness, but for their own as well. If Prince Rainier dies without issue, Monaco, under the terms of a 1918 treaty with France, will automatically become a French protectorate. The prospect is horrifying to every Monégasque, for it will inevitably bring French taxes and military conscription to a land of no taxes and no army, except for the picturesque 68-man Palace Guard. Every Monégasque wants to see his Prince safely married, and a princeling or two around...
...with the Golden Arm (Otto Preminger; United Artists). All that glitters is not necessarily tin foil. In this picture the moviegoer is offered the prospect of a hoppy ending, in which the hero gets the heroin. The Johnston office, standing to the Production Code ("The illegal drug traffic and drug addiction must never be presented"), has stamped its official nix on the picture-the sort of thundering knock that usually brings a lightning boost at the box office. On the screen, however, the picture provides much more than the cheap thrill it promises. The hero is a man who gets...
Although recent de-emphasis and an Ivy League ruling against post-season competition have combined to make the Crimson eleven an unlikely bowl prospect, such was not always the case...
...please or appease Egypt, decided that proven friends are best, and made a big fuss over its new Baghdad pact (METO) partners, particularly its old partner-in-oil Iraq. By proving that it pays, militarily and economically, to be friends, the British hope to recruit as another METO prospect, Jordan, whose national budget and Arab Legion they underwrite at the rate of $24 million a year. The British are determined to show Egypt's Nasser that flirting with Communists is not the way to get arms or anything else from the West. The British have another reason for bestirring themselves...
...nine, Lou proved he was someone by recruiting an accomplice and going to Brooklyn's Abraham & Straus department store. There they picked out a canoe, hefted it over their heads and walked out through the delivery exit unchallenged. The rest of that summer Louis and friends spent boating on Prospect Park Lake nearby...