Word: prospecting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...afterward. Britain's Lord Caradon recently reported to the United Nations General Assembly that 50 colonial territories still remained to be freed around the world-31 in the British Empire alone. Since, in general, the weakest and least viable colonies are the last to be turned loose, the prospect is staggering. All of them, of course, soon apply for membership in the United Nations, where their equal voting power with such big nations as the U.S. and Russia has caused a whole new set of problems. This incongruous situation has moved Secretary-General U Thant to suggest that perhaps...
...small and technologically blighted in a world that is fast integrating its trade and increasing its industrial and scientific prowess. Most of them simply cannot get up the ante to enter the race, let alone run the course on their meager human and natural resources. There is always the prospect of neo-imperialism, in which the stronger new nations would take over the weaker, but the votes and voices of other small nations in the U.N. are a deterrent to such country grabbing...
Farther down the road is the prospect of political federation. So far, it has proved an unsuccessful experiment, torpedoed in several instances by prickly national and even tribal sensitivities and by the fear of bureaucrats that cooperation would eliminate duplication of ministries-and hence their jobs. Though it is a geographical entity, for example, Africa suffers from such deep and profound differences as to make it seem like a collection of different worlds. More over, there, are no African, Asian or Latin American countries today that show much interest in revising their borders or totally merging with other nations. Still...
...games she played made enemies, among them that ingenious hunchback, Alexander Pope, whose ferociously witty verses proclaimed that Lady Mary was greedy, stingy, adulterous, Lesbian, syphilitic-and on top of that she wore a dirty smock. His attacks were sickeningly effective. In her 40s Lady Mary faced a painful prospect: her name was muck, her marriage a byword, her looks a fading memory. In moving lines she said farewell to the love she never found...
There is still a faint glimmer of hope that Harvard might land in a three-way tie for the league title, if Princeton pulls off a miracle and somehow manages to beat Cornell. The prospect should be discussed in hushed tones only; if it occurs, tour wrestling since Jacob took on the angel...