Word: prospecting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Fighting small fires all over the world while the arsonist sat back unharmed was a prospect that bothered many Americans. What had flitted across their minds was put into words by Harold E. Stassen...
Conductor Dimitri Mitropoulos was pleased at the prospect. Said he: "A great orchestra keeps in top form only by performance." He Was also hopeful of making a few symphony converts among Tyrone Power fans: "A conductor is a bit of a missionary...
...Impatience at the prospect of fighting a succession of small "brush fires," with an impulse to drop the atom bomb on Moscow. "Let's end it before it starts" was a phrase frequently heard...
...Davis Cup Selection Committee Chairman James H. Bishop thought he had found the answer. As Hamilton Farrar ("Ham") Richardson of Baton Rouge, La. went about winning the National Junior championship with one of the most stylish all-court games seen this year, Jim Bishop pronounced him "the best [tennis] prospect in a quarter of a century...
Backing up the malcontents was no less a personage than Sunday Painter Winston Churchill, who had remarked after seeing the picture: "I don't like it, and, furthermore, if that is the Resurrection, I can contemplate with considerable equanimity the prospect of eternal sleep...