Word: prospecting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Matter of Face. It is possible that this is indeed what distresses the Reds-that their fake incidents are simply to regain face. That is Washington's interpretation. If anything else is in prospect, General James Van Fleet is calmly ready for the enemy. "He can't bring into this battle line and support enough troops to defeat the Eighth Army," he said. "We would consider it a great opportunity if they were to attack. If [the G.I.s] have to start fighting again, they will have a new hatred for the enemy. They will be an eager army...
...refinery in these weeks, will cut 70,000 Iranians from its payroll, stop the flow of revenue which accounts for 43% of the Iranian national budget. The British hoped such economic blows would compel a change of heart, perhaps through a change of government. But there was an unpleasant prospect in this plan: a Red-led regime and economic chaos might replace Mossadeq. The septuagenarian Premier himself clung desperately to a belief that Allah, or perhaps the U.S., would somehow retrieve the situation...
...rank & file unionists complained bitterly against rising prices and pegged wages, the General Council stoutly supported the government's 3½-year-old wage restraint policy. Last week it could hold out against the clamor no longer. The General Council formally demanded that the government okay increases. In prospect: a clash between the unions and Clement Attlee & Co., who fear that wage increases, in Britain's economy, will produce runaway inflation. Attlee will be damned if he gives in, damned if he doesn...
Fanaticism Finished. Most Germans these days live by and for themselves. They are, in the main, unkind to each other. They lack confidence in any community and are skeptical of new sacrifices for the common interest. Thus there is little prospect that German resentments will take the form of organized violence...
Then came the waiting. Along the battle lines, fighting slackened. South Korean leaders worried over the prospect of a settlement whjch would leave North Korea in Communist hands. Their legislature had already passed a resolution opposing a cease-fire at the 38th parallel. In Pusan, the powerful National Society staged a street rally and, before waving, hand-clapping Koreans, voted for a fight to the finish, immediate disarmament of North Korean Communists, and "international sanctions" against the aggressors' allies. But elsewhere in the non-Communist world, there was only cautious hope...