Word: prospecting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Part of the normalcy which the country returns to is the prospect of a Humphrey-Nixon presidential race, a contest between experienced and conventional apostles of order--tepid progressives on racial problems, unimaginative hawks on the Vietnam...
...into parts of the city, great, 1,000-ft. pillars of black smoke angled into the sky from pipelines and oil and gas wells set ablaze by the retreating Ibos. At week's end, Biafran soldiers were still holding out in some sections of Port Harcourt, and the prospect was for long-drawn-out fighting. But the superior federal firepower seemed certain to prevail eventually, and then Port Harcourt would join the long string of Ibo ghost towns now occupied by the Lagos government...
...Quarterback: three promising sophomores will vie for the position that worries Yovicsin most. Bill Kelly is the leading prospect. Kelly is the biggest of the three but the weakest passer. He is a shifty runner and, most important, seems to have the ability to move the team under pressure. John O'Grady was the most highly rated at the beginning of last fall. An accurate passer and good runner, O'Grady's only weakness is his size. He is only 5-10 and 180 lbs. An injury to his shoulder early in the season prevented him from seeing as much...
...weekend, the fast-spreading wave of strikes had squeezed transportation to a crawl, crippled mail service and both Paris airports, and spread into dozens of manufacturing industries. Barring the remote possibility that the government could find a way to reverse the trend immediately, France faced this week the grim prospect of an unofficial general strike...
...continuation of diplomacy by other means," declared the 19th century Prussian strategist Karl von Clausewitz in his famous aphorism. He would well appreciate what the Communists are up to on the battlefields of South Viet Nam these days. In military terms, the war is largely a standoff, with no prospect in sight that either side can deliver a knockout punch to the other. But to help out the Communists negotiating with the U.S. in Paris, the North Vietnamese and Viet Cong have adopted what might be called a strategy of appearances...