Word: prospecting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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While editorialists debated and the Teachers Union held loud, anti-government rallies in protest, ordinary citizens were puzzled, but generally more disturbed by the pro-Communist teachers than by the prospect of a revived thought control. Said a Tokyo housewife after her two children had brought anti-government pamphlets home from school: "I have my misgivings about the government's bills, but if the teachers are sending such leaflets to our homes through our children, I hope the laws will be passed immediately...
...Prussian policeman who believed in the strap (for discipline) and the rifle (for exercise), he was press-ganged into the Hitler Youth and taught that the Führer knows best. When Germany attacked Poland ("to liberate the terrorized Germans"), Knoke wrote in his diary: "The prospect of actually experiencing war rather appeals...
...PROSPECT BEFORE US (266 pp.)- Herberf Gold-World...
...novels, one of the newest recruits to the genre, Cleveland-born Herbert Gold, 29, has focused on a hard-at-work groper. His first novel, Birth of a Hero, featured a middle-aged father of three groping for a new personality in an extra-marital love affair. The Prospect Before Us tells the story of a pudgy Cleveland hotel operator who suddenly starts groping for personal integrity instead of the fast buck...
...novel's start, Harry Bowers, bald and fiftyish, is on top of the world. The world, for him, consists of the Green Glade, a third-rate fleabag hotel on Prospect...