Word: prospect
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...prospect of that kind of trouble did not cause the U.S. to alter its course of rapid social change. Far from being in these days of increasing prosperity a relaxed luxury liner drifting through seas of self-satisfaction, the U.S. is, more than ever, on a cruise of experiment, an amazing and perilous voyage of discovery toward the unknown potentialities of brotherhood that may lie beyond mere material prosperity...
When the Supreme Court decrced an indefinite period for the "adjustment of local problems" in desegregation, even enthusiastic liberals must have felt considerable relief. The prospect of enforcing a law that some citizens seem prepared to break violently is not a pleasant one. The Court evidently hopes that under this last decree, continual, if restrained, federal prodding will force segregation into retirement. With part of the South claiming that it is prepared to go to any lengths to break or evade the law, the decision is probably a wise...
Jumping with Joy. From Austria, as from NATO, Reporter Dulles brought back some color for his story. The Austrian people, who had lived under occupation since Hitler's goose-steppers arrived in 1938, were overjoyed at the prospect of liberation-"particularly the older people who had known the liberties of the past. [They were] just jumping up and down with joy, their wrinkled faces-it just made your heart feel warm at the thought that we'd been able to make some contribution to this spirit of joy." Beneath the surface, Secretary Dulles found further reason for "great...
Knight. When he had finished, the pen, the checkbook, and the smile on the prospect's face had vanished. Goodie left emptyhanded...
Italian Premier Mario Scelba, worried by the prospect of U.S. forces withdrawing from a neutralized Austria, and thus leaving Italy less protected in the north, went out of his way to insist that for Italy there is no alternative to alliance with the West...