Word: prospecting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Tension over Russia at this moment probably helps the Socialists stay in office. Britain accepts the necessity of preparing for war, but so dreads the prospect that she is determined that no action of hers shall in any way provoke war. People sense that Churchill, with his martial spirit and forthright ways, might somehow hasten a war. Churchill, sensing this mood, is careful in the House not to sound more warlike than the Socialists. His recent attack on the armament program flopped because of this attitude. He obviously thought that a 15-day call-up of reserves was inadequate...
...more hardheaded proposal. In the last war, an estimated 120,000 U.S. troops were pinned down guarding hemisphere bases. This time, the U.S. proposed that the latino republics supply the guards. To get this help, the U.S. was dangling the prospect of $80 million in aid toward arming and training Latin American forces. Listening with half an ear, the latinos busily scribbled away on some 50 different economic proposals asking mainly: 1) guaranteed fixed prices for U.S. exports and 2) highest possible prices for their raw materials...
Such Chinese reinforcement would drive home the big question raised again by MacArthur. If the Chinese committed another huge army to Korea, the prospect of a settlement of the Korean war would fade still more. And such a Chinese commitment would mean that the coast of China was more open to attack and pressure than it had been before. Chinese policy seemed to be forcing the U.N. toward a major political decision: U.N. policymakers would have to decide whether to try to win the war by striking directly at Red China, e.g., by naval blockade and air assault...
...farce for his supposed benefit. In one way or another, the patient usually finds out or guesses what his condition is, and then his miseries are increased by annoyance at the dissembling physician. Sometimes the victim is not so much appalled by impending death as he is by the prospect of leaving his wife or husband. In that case, Alvarez talks frankly to both: "You two know perfectly well what this disease is, so why should you now be lying to one another, as you never did before? Why not now face this hardest of all things together...
...Cardinals' Wilmer ("Vinegar Bend") Mizell, 20, tagged by sportwriters as "the lefthanded Dizzy Dean." In a pure corn-pone drawl, Vinegar explains his nickname: "Vinegar Bend, Mississippi [pop. about 75] is where ah gets mah mail.'' Signed as a barefoot prospect in nearby Leakesville, Miss. (pop. around 1,000) two years ago, Vinegar bounced up the Cardinal chain to Winston-Salem last year, where he won 17 games, struck out 227 batters in 207 innings. Cardinal Manager Marty Marion exults over his huge (6 ft. 3 in., 200 lbs.) pitcher: "He has the livest fast ball...