Word: prospecting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When Captain Fisby agrees to accept a couple of native "souvenirs," and they turn out to be two little geisha girls named First Flower and Lotus Blossom, he thinks his career is cooked. But the men of his village, usually appalled at the prospect of hard work, are so charmed by the geishas that they enthusiastically pitch in to build them a proper teahouse. To do so, it is necessary to scrounge and improvise, and soon Captain Fisby, who is weak on Army directives but strong on old-fashioned initiative, finds himself supervising a complex business combine. His once-sleepy...
...alarmingf factor: M.S.I.'s fast growth. In order to form a government in Sicily, the Demo-Christians will probably have to deal with the Monarchists and the Neo-Fascists, much as they dislike the prospect...
...bomb group in the South Pacific in World War II, later became a staff officer in the Pentagon; after the war, became commander of the Yukon sector, Alaskan Air Command, was back on staff duty with the Atomic Energy Commission when he was sent off to Japan and the prospect of another star...
Since the A.M.A. and other organized medical groups have continuously trembled at the prospect of federal aid in any form, this bill has, and will have, determined opposition. Arguing that once the government extends its purse, socialized medicine will inevitably follow, the A.M.A. continues to fight the Senate bill and offers no suitable alternative. But the life of S. 377 is only five years and it would involve a minimum of control. Amendments to the bill insure that it will not endanger the freedoms in medical education. The alternative of letting the medical schools go bankrupt would entail a much...
Mayor Edward A. Crane cited a letter in which Washington relates, " we raised to Grand Union Flag in Cambridge." Somerville historians counter, however, that Washington mentioned in another letter that the flag was first flown from Prospect Hill in that city, and that the Red Coats saw it and took it as a sign of surrender. Prospect Hil is the highest point of land in this area...