Word: prospects
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...combining these domestic promises with aggressive campaigning, the Labour Party has stolen the offensive. Trying to dismiss such promises as "auctioneering," the Conservatives are looking for strength in the closing days of the campaign to the improved prospect of a summit meeting. The current truck strike should also benefit the Tories, as it refreshes the anti-union sentiment and reminds the voters of the close connection between the unions and the Labour Party...
With the failure of Senator Kennedy's bill to remove the loyalty oath provision, there is no prospect until next session that it will be repealed. For its provisional refusal to use the federal monies, the University deserves much credit...
...Nicklaus bothered by the prospect of eventually figuring the lie of the greens against Defending Champion Charlie Coe, 35, the dry-spoken, shaft-lean (6 ft., 150 lbs.) oil broker from Oklahoma City. Nicklaus had just the club to back up his long game off the tee: an oldfashioned, hickory-shafted putter, which he had ordered in Scotland last spring while helping Captain Coe defend the Walker Cup against the British amateurs. In the semifinals, faced with a 27-ft. putt downhill over a hump, Nicklaus precisely moved his new bat and watched the ball trickle home to eliminate California...
Khrushchev was welcomed courteously, at times even cordially. In general, however, the tone of the visit made it clear that Americans have no love either for the Premier or for the system he represents, but that co-existence is, at least for this side, a perfectly feasible and desirable prospect. The incidents in Los Angeles that kept overwraught State Department officials in a state of near-panic for a while last week were regrettable, but at the same time were exaggerated by Khrushchev's apparent hyper-sensitivity...
...well be wondered if anyone longing for redemption has ever really been drawn by the prospect of continuing to subsist through an infinite temporal series--no one thirsted for "eternal happiness," I suspect, in a literal sense. It would be an insipid life of everlasting boredom, as wits like Shaw have often pointed out. Indeed it is the fact of death that gives value to life; only the certainty that the temporal series is finite imparts any worth to a given point or segment...