Word: prospecting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Socialist youths in Sofia symbolized and expressed the widespread sentiment of Communist parties across Europe. It was this opposition, the prospect of profoundly splitting the already splintered Communist world, that was a big factor in the outcome of the Russian-Czechoslovak confrontation. In a memorable turn of events, Russia last week backed down on nearly all its demands of Alexander Dubcek's reformist regime in Czechoslovakia (see following story...
...prospect is that despite such amputations, Congress will eventually reduce the President's original $186.1 billion budget request by only about $3 billion. Then the Administration will presumably attempt to lop off more. But the war, along with interest on the national debt and other exigencies of the nation's housekeeping, will make further substantial reductions almost prohibitively difficult...
...prospect of a floating sculpture is particularly pleasing for Grosvenor because he has had long experience with the sea. Born rich and raised in the rich stretches of Newport's Ocean Drive, he sails his own 20-ft. gaff-rigged sloop. After studying architecture in Paris, he experimented with abstract expressionist painting and junk sculpture in a Manhattan loft. Then one day he stepped into an elevator that wasn't there, and the fall broke both his legs. In the course of his six-months' hospitalization he meditated and discovered his true bent. Today he first sketches...
...these two improbable people finally get together is a clear case of Blackmail. Ivy, hankering for more out of life, decides to leave her "family." The lady of the house gets frantic at the prospect of losing her maid, tells her to "call me Doris like my friends," and offers to give her a vacation: "We'll send you anyplace you want to go. Ah ... Africa...
Amidst all this, both parties are rushing ass-backwards toward the nominations of the two dullest candidates in the field--Richard Nixon and Hubert Humphrey. Party leaders on both sides, as reports from the governors' conference in Cincinnati suggest, view this prospect with something less than riotous enthusiasm. They seem to think that the screaming, grabbing, tugging, and titers may be more than discontent over rising crime rates and Vietnam...