Word: likelihood
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...injection of potassium citrate stopped the heart for 15 minutes; in throat-parching closeups, the hole inside Debbie's still, flaccid heart, too big for safe stitching, was repaired with a plastic patch made from stuff similar to kitchen sponges. Two weeks later Debbie went home-with every likelihood of a normal life expectancy...
Wearing Them Out. From that point on, says Von Braun, Huntsville lived "under a continued threat of extinction. We were all the time told that in all likelihood, since the Air Force had roles and missions, there was no need for the Jupiter, and we would go out of business." But Huntsville did not go out of business; instead, it fought back, bitterly and sometimes unwisely. Colonel John Nickerson, one of the Army's top men at Huntsville, wrote a violent criticism of Wilson's roles-and-missions order, sent it off to Congressmen and columnists (including Drew...
...consume valuable inventories of goods and to reduce the rate at which we construct much-needed plant and equipment. In other words, the recession is making it easier in the long run for demand to outrun the supply of goods. Hence, the present recession tends to increase the likelihood of a rise in the price level...
...names of the Crimson's two non-Ivy League opponents have not yet been disclosed, but they will in all likelihood be teams of the strength of the University of Ohio, which lost to the varsity several weeks...
...likelihood is slim, therefore, that Turkey would ever launch agressive action against either the Syrians--whose weak army could offer little resistance to the confident and trigger-happy Turkish juggernaut--or against the Russians, whose size and atomic strength unfortunately, for the Turks, preclude the thought of risking a grudge war. But on the other hand, the strength and toughness of the Turkish army now being manifested in the muscle-flexing along the Syrian border should be sufficient to deter reckless moves within Syria. Yet the hard reality of the situation in the Middle East today is that a miscalculation...