Word: prospecting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...glasses and began to read the text of his address. He used fewer gestures than he ordinarily does; he paused reluctantly for applause as he moved quickly to the "one question" that, above all, weighed upon the free world: "The chance for a just peace." Why had the bright prospect of peace vanished in the aftermath of World War II? "The U.S. and our valued friends...
Airman Bridgeman views the "heat barrier" calmly. He does not seem alarmed by the prospect of flying an airplane whose windows are too hot to touch. He is not optimistic, either, about the ultimate outcome. "The sound barrier," he says from experience, "wasn't too bad. It was sort of like jumping over a fence. But the heat barrier is like fighting your way into a thicket of thorns. The farther you get into it, the more thorns stick into...
...prospect of a year at the Sorbonne is often enough to lure many language students into concentration in Romance Languages and Literatures. The Faculty decided several years ago that students in this field could spend their junior year abroad with a language study group. The prospective traveler must meet only three requirements: he must be a candidate for honors, he must at least be in Group III, and he must scrape together the necessary cash...
...promised to ask restaurateurs and other offenders to end their discrimination. Then Attorney General Herbert Brownell appealed a lower court order which had invalidated an old anti-segregation law. Neither gesture will end discrimination. A pleading word from the President is not so apt to reform bigots as the prospect of court action. And a technicality has rendered the previous anti-segregation act illegal...
...three parties which work in partnership with him, have had a substantial majority (63.7%) in the Chamber. But the strength of Italy's antidemocrats at both ends of the spectrum, the Communists and the monarcho-fascists, is growing. De Gasperi fears what he recently called "the prospect of the two extreme wings joining hands to create . . . a paralysis of the parliamentary system." Though many democrats are disquieted by the reform law, De Gasperi argues that democracy must be made secure enough to survive...