Word: prospects
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...unnecessarily--and for those who know me, uncharacteristically--bitter words. But I believe Moynihan was being either intellectually dishonest or arrogantly blind, two popular Cambridge mindsets that, once revealed, should be pilloried with all the venom of a congregation of offended Puritans. My anger is sharpened by the frightening prospect of Moynihan's taking a seat in the Senate, where he would have at least six years access to a national audience and higher governmental office. Imagine how the press will embrace this Harvard-professor-turned-politician, a Renaissance man for the people who follow People...
...selling a judgeship and tampering with evidence. Yet it was typical of the new unity of the party that the New York Democrats, so prominent a force in years past, are binding together with others in the old Democratic coalition across the country-labor, minorities and so on. The prospect of victory, the scent of Republican blood, has been a powerful party healer...
...executions are immediately in prospect, but the Governors of Florida, Georgia and Texas are all known to favor capital punishment. Jack Greenberg, director-counsel of the N.A.A.C.P. Legal Defense Fund, was disconsolate about the court's action and pledged to continue fighting for each condemned convict. But he admitted that "we don't hold out much hope." The death sentence has not been carried out in the U.S. sAice 1967.* That moratorium may not last through its tenth year...
...family, which rules the north, decided to break a 100-year truce and recapture the southern region that had split away in 1613. They managed to seize the southern capital of Hué last year, but the Tay Son brothers intercepted them in Quang Nam and halted their advance. Prospect: further bloodshed and confusion...
...assignment. Despite the fact that his wife Elizabeth was pregnant with their third child. Cook immediately volunteered. Since then, he has been gathering adventurous young crewmen like Astronomer James King, former Dartmouth Student John Ledyard, and Sailing Master William Bligh. Says Cook: "I embark on as fair a prospect as I can wish...