Word: prospecting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...must quit bemoaning the prospect, discouraging the young men into indifference and indecision, and frightening them into ill-considered or hasty decisions about college, the choice of a profession, or anything else in their future...
Last week the three convictions became a specific plan-the first rational defense policy the U.S. has had. The new plan is built around air-atomic power, and it faces up to the strategic prospect actually confronting the U.S., i.e., that the enemy has a choice of forcing either all-out atomic war or limited war upon this nation. The plan will cost less because it follows a principle laid down in Baltimore: "We cannot pretend to do everything in every field all the time...
...immediately to meet pressing needs, and by last week, $50,000 had been pledged or was in hand. Gilcrease himself plans to move from Tulsa to Claremore, to serve as director of the new museum. Anxious only to keep his collection together, Gilcrease was delighted with the prospect. Said he: "I set up [the collection] for the benefit of the people. It has value only when held intact for . . . the people...
...knew they were a good lot. There was a small boy with his father, and a small executive with his secretary, and the nattily uniformed bus driver who collected the money-"no half fares." Vag chose a seat near his companions and settled back, his heart pounding at the prospect of the trip ahead. Smiling, he mused wistfully over the great educational centers and historical points of interest he was about...
...moment, grim as an open grave. The four leading actors do excellent work. Actress Parker is spirited and warm as the heroine. John Forsythe is subtle and easy, a sort of walking diploma from V.M.I. William Demarest manages to wear a week's grizzle, chaw the plug and prospect for laughs without sounding too much like Gabby Hayes. And William Holden again suggests that he is the most versatile leading man in Hollywood. In the last year he has played, and played well, a carefree young worldling (The Moon Is Blue), a heel with a heart of gold (Stalag...