Word: prospecting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last November Moscow made a clear-as-vodka attempt to disrupt the Western decision to rearm Western Germany: the Kremlin held out the enticing prospect of another Council of Foreign Ministers meeting. The U.S., Britain and France replied that such a talk must include not only the question of Germany but of other areas of disagreement as well. On New Year's Eve, the Russians answered. They reaffirmed their offer to talk about Germany, but gave neither a flat da nor a flat niet on whether they were willing to talk about the other sore spots...
Take a Lesson. Aramco was reasonably happy with the deal. After investing $400 million in Saudi Arabia, it had boosted production 46-fold in a decade, to a rate of 650,000 barrels daily (equal to 11% of all U.S. domestic production). With the prospect of an expanding market, and with its development work largely completed, Aramco recognized that Saudi Arabia was entitled to a bigger share than it had gotten during the years of exploration work...
...greatest financial peril confronting higher education ... today is the prospect of further inflation," the commission said. "Colleges and universities cannot simply increase their prices; they do not operate in any such...
Recently I read a story in your paper expressing disapproval of the new trays that have been ordered for the mess halls. I am distressed by your opposition to progress, because, although I seldom complain against the local mess hall (in fact, I take solace in the prospect that the children who can stand no cooking but their maid's or mother's, will soon eat in mess halls that will make them yearn for Ptomaine Tessie and the K-house Consolidated), I have been mightily distressed by the present tray situation...
...surfeited with undigested facts, and sought its salvation not in the conquest of new knowledge but in what it could relearn from old, old lessons. 1950's man might turn out to be the aging conspirator, Joseph Stalin, but as the year closed, that dreadful prospect was far from certain; if he was winning the game and not just an inning, Stalin's historians would record that 1950 -and all other years from the death of Lenin-belonged to him. Or 1950's man might turn out to be an unknown saint, quietly living above the clash...