Word: prospecting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...lire. All this conspired to confuse them when Il Duce rhetorically touched on the subject of self-sacrifice. Confidently expecting a negative answer, he threw back his head and bellowed: "Do you want riches? Do you want glory? Do you want honors?" Their eyes bulging with the prospect of more booty, the Blackshirts cried...
Idaho, home of Isolationist Senator Borah, backed his judgment and viewed with alarm the direction in which events were drifting. To some young Idahoans, the prospect of war seemed adventurous. ("Look at the fun Dad had in the World War.") Others talked of heading for the hills with a pack horse...
...cinematerial, Wuthering Heights might seem as farfetched a prospect as any book yet pillaged. It is crammed with neurotic, 19th-Century gloom, ridden with implications of incest, short on action, careless of conventional morality. As additional drawbacks, Mr. Olivier, entrusted with the crucial role of Heathcliff, boasts that he dislikes working for the movies and only does it for money; Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur, preparing for their labors on Gunga Din, could barely be persuaded to leave their marathon backgammon game long enough to write a script. The script turned out brilliantly. Olivier's work as Heathcliff...
Since there was no prospect of paying off the arrears in cash, President Dennison last week asked his stockholders to accept new preferred and common stock instead. Simultaneously he proposed a complete reshaping of capital structure, reducing good will from $1,000,000 to $1, otherwise putting new stickum on the Dennison label...
...there were a prospect of an aggressor launching an attack on Britain, with bombers raining death on London, I have no doubt what the decision of the Canadian people and Parliament would be. We would regard it as an act of aggression, menacing freedom in all parts of the British Commonwealth...