Word: prospecting
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...group of generals (including Thieu) formed a military affairs committee, which from now on is to be the armed forces' decisionmaking body on both military and political questions. The committee's undisputed leader, the man who calls the meetings and runs the show, will be Ky. The prospect, then, is that even if Thieu is elected President, Ky will in fact be in charge. It is an arrangement Thieu seems willing to accept as a fair exchange for the honor of the presidency-for the time being, at least...
Davis, on the other hand, was a standout, but no superstar at Harvard. And yet he is a better pro prospect than Leo. At six-feet-six and 235 pounds, Davis was the quickest, though possibly not the strongest, of Harvard's interior linemen. Because it uses a pursuing style of defense, Harvard depended almost entirely on Davis for an occasional big pass rush...
There were about 100 Negro candidates in last May's Democratic primary, and the Courier was viewing its future--which held out the prospect of warm friends in high places--with unabashed enthusiasm. A couple of days before the vote, editors set into type a jubilant editorial on the power of the Negro vote. It never ran; the ed, framed in black, hangs in the Courier office. All but a handful of Negroes and white liberals were clobbered at the polls...
...prospect is for favorable House action this year. If the bill is finally enacted, it will by no means repeal Barnum's law that a sucker is born every minute, but it may at least amend it to let the boob know for just how much he is being taken...
...wrote befuddled Bostonian Henry Adams about his first trip to Europe in 1858. Until recently, most Americans were hardly better prepared than Adams was to face the languages, customs and currencies of the countries they planned to visit. But more and more U.S. citizens today face the prospect of living abroad for extended periods during their lifetime, as students, diplomats, businessmen or Peace Corps volunteers. Training them to cope with alien habits has become a burgeoning new branch of American education...