Word: prospecting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...begin last week, Owner Inumaru met with representatives from the village and agreed to save the main lobby, at least temporarily. Assuming the estimated $4,000,000 can be raised, Wright's spiritual presence seems likely to settle down with relics from the Meiji period (1868-1912). The prospect of becoming a part of Japan's architectural heritage would probably have pleased him, since he greatly admired 19th century Japanese prints, which, said he, preached "the gospel of the elimination of the insignificant...
...member of the cast knows where to prospect and she alone is enough to make the show worth seeing. Her name is Meg Meglathery, and she plays one of the weird sisters. She is marvelous. Tart as some of her own quince jam and so tiny that she is virtually two-dimensional, Miss Meglathery bustles self-containedly about the stage amid heavy traffic of corpses, cops, criminals, and intended victims. Her voice is crystal clear, her demeanor is perfect and her timing is unfailingly accurate...
...prospect of freedom dimmed, Bonhoeffer suffered moments of discouragement. "Slowly it gets to be a waiting whose outward sense I cannot comprehend," he wrote to Maria. "Your life would have been quite different, easier, clearer, simpler, had not our paths crossed." But the majority of his letters reflected overwhelming courage and inflexible faith. In his last message to Maria, written at Christmas time, 1944, he said: "What is happiness? It depends so little on the circumstances; it depends really only on that which happens inside a person." Four months later he was hanged at the Flossenbürg concentration camp...
...first but picking up in the second six months to give the Common Market a 4½% growth for the year. At the same time, says the commission, "imports will probably increase significantly." If so, both the U.S. and Britain stand to benefit from export sales-a welcome prospect because it would ease their balance-of-payments troubles...
...proposed merger would have required Vassar to uproot from its picture-book, 106-year-old campus in Poughkeepsie to the confines of New Haven. That prospect antagonized alumnae from the start; even students, who first greeted the idea of union with delight, seemed to have formed second thoughts. "Just think of losing this gorgeous place," said Junior Andrea Haber...