Word: prospecting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Yardling football team, in past years stocked with a surplus of outstanding high school and prep school stars, this season faces the prospect of a plain, mediocre year minus such leaders...
...agile young Premier's tenacity at the London Conference had won substantial concessions from the Germans and a history-making commitment from Britain. Paris headlines called the achievement a "decisive step" and "unmitigated success." But the politicians awaited their Premier's return with jeers and indifference. The prospect of making a decision, even en principe, threw the Assembly into a tizzy. Party lines unraveled like old hawsers. In the corridors of the Palais Bourbon, said one who was present, "there was so much grappling with souls that you could weigh them." But the tocsin summoned the Deputies...
Treasure Tracker. For uranium hunters who want to prospect from plane, train or auto (TIME. Oct. 11), Manhattan's Radiac Co. has developed a 6-lb. supersensitive Geiger counter. Price...
Attlee would prefer to see a China that feels in a position to be a little aloof from Russia. A Communist China which regards itself as the equal of Russia and which may feel that its interests clash with those of Russia in Asia is a better prospect for the Western world than a China which is made to feel that it must lean on Russia or face the prospect of having enemies on both flanks...
...Such a prospect did not bother Nehru. The pledge of good will was the thing, he insisted. "Even though there may be some evil behind it, saying the right thing and trying to act up to it will gradually do away with that evil in the mind," explained the Prime Minister. To push his Five Principles, Nehru will soon take off for Peking to see Mao Tse-tung. On his way, he will display his nonaggression samples to Burma's Prime Minister U Nu in Rangoon, also stop in Hanoi (the Communist Viet Minh will be installed there...