Word: prospecting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...week's end some of India's usually neutralist newspapers were drawing an editorial conclusion they would have damned as U.S. propaganda not seven days before. "There is no prospect," said the Hindustan Times, "of India, Burma and Indonesia wanting to swing over to China." And the influential Times of India seemed to be writing an epitaph over Nehru's dream of a protected Area of Peace when it acknowledged that "it would be something unusual for Communist China to reject the traditional Communist pattern of expansion...
...said Andover Dean of Students G. G. Benedict, "I quail at the prospect of making 'secret treaties' with all of the colleges (43) in which our superior students are interested...
...until the painters began work on Harry's cage. A nonconformist, Harry never liked crowds, and he didn't like the painters, the paint, or the whole operation. It upset his delicate psyche bringing on a three ton sulk and positive loss of appetite. Zoo officials, frantic at the prospect of Harry's demise, called off the painters and the St. Louis Post Dispatch was full of Harry's glory for days...
Radishes with Butter. Mendes was overjoyed. Before him lay the prospect that soon he might head the strongest and most effective coalition in the history of the Fourth Republic. His strongest single asset was his growing popularity among the most forgotten people in French politics: ordinary citizens. Opening a school here, laying a cornerstone there, Mendes was dramatizing his "New Deal" in glowing phrases. A sample: "The wind is rising, morning is here, we are at the dawn of a new France." With the French people aroused and behind him, he hopes to bend the quarreling politicians to his will...
...sided inspection of the stresses in the imperial structure would be falsely encouraging; The Formation of the Soviet Union has a sobering effect as well. It exposes the sinews that bind the borderlands to the empire, and make a Tito-like rebellion within the Soviet Union a very dim prospect. Nearly every disruptive force inside the USSR evokes a counterforce which helps preserve stability. The dynamics of the USSR have changed very little since 1924 in this respect...