Word: likelihood
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Return. At week's end prospects were good that both the shipyard and engineering strikes would soon be ended. (Since both groups belong to the same confederation, the engineers would probably follow the shipbuilders' lead.) There was, however, little likelihood that any of the strikers would now be content with anything less than the 5% increase granted the railwaymen, or that they in return would have to abandon the restrictive practices (featherbedding, rigid jurisdictional rules, etc.) which keep their productivity from going up as fast as their pay. Warned the London Economist: "The threat to the national economy...
...Conference. A nondescript politician forced on Magsaysay by the Nationalists, Garcia is unlikely to be more than a caretaker until the presidential elections, to be held this fall. Just who that successor will be, no one can predict. Magsaysay so completely dominated Philippine politics and affections that in all likelihood he would have been nominated by both parties. There was no one like him -a man in whom Filipinos saw their best, just as he always saw the best in them...
Midway in the conference came a blockbuster: Was a Soviet attack on the U.S. possible, even imminent? "Oh, for goodness' sake," he exploded, "of course, anything is possible in this world in which we live . . . but I say this: the likelihood that any nation possessing these great weapons of massive destruction would use them in an attack grows less, I think, every year. I believe that as their understanding of them grows, then the less the chance that they would go on an adventure that brought these things into play, because, as I see it, any such operation today...
...Eastern situation is the most dangerous that the U.S. has encountered in ten years. When North Dakota's Republican Bill Langer asked whether the Eisenhower plan would increase the chances of war, Dulles replied categorically: ' would say that if this resolution passes, I think there is little likelihood; but if it does not pass, I think there is a great likelihood...
...likelihood of a yes from all six nations, including France, has suddenly bestirred the British, who have long kept one tentative foot in and one determined foot out of the Continent. To avoid Britain's being frozen out completely, Harold Macmillan, when he was Chancellor of the Exchequer last fall, put forth a counterscheme, broader but less radical than the Common Market. He proposed the creation of a Free Trade Area in Europe, to take in not just the Common Market Six, but twelve other European nations besides. The Six, who have all had previous bitter experience with British...