Word: hope
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Starting with "every hope of working out a solution," McCloy would find his British and French, opposite numbers in a similar mood. General Sir Brian Robertson, now to be in high commissioner's mufti, has been firm and unruffled as British military governor. Scholarly, 62-year-old Andre François-Poncet, Ambassador to Berlin from 1931 to 1938, is one of those surprisingly numerous Frenchmen who want Germany as a good neighbor rather than as a chained foe. He has written: "With a little imagination, a little courage and good will, the problem of Germany can be solved...
...chilling precision. A close-cropped ex-army captain stepped stiffly forward. "Some of us," he barked, "have not seen home in ten years. All of us have been prisoners for four. We have made the greatest sacrifice." The 2,000 chorused: "Sono tori [exactly]!" The captain barked: "Full of hope, we have come to build a new democratic Japan on the Potsdam agreement." The men thundered: "Yoshi [good...
Last year the Harvardmen produced two cocoons whose silk was "hot" enough to impress their images on a photographic film. This year they hope to grow a kilo (2.2 lbs.) of the stuff for themselves and colleagues to study. The hot silk, even in this quantity, will not be a menace. Even if it should escape from the laboratory and get itself woven into underwear, it is not strong enough to damage the most sensitive skin...
...answers, just as carefully decided that only the Christian world-outlook is universal enough for a university. Yet such Christianity must look more eagerly toward the future's addition of ideas and events than toward the past's tradition of them. Sir Walter's hope for the universities is that Christian teachers and students, seeking "new symbols" for old values, may "play the role of a 'creative minority,' from which the whole community may gradually take colour...
...many, such hope seemed perilously near to despair, but it was hope enough for Sir Walter. Last week, while still heading the government's University Grants Committee, he was busy preparing for his new job as first principal of St. Catherine's, a new college "based on the Christian faith and philosophy of life." Sir Walter's hope was considerably fortified by the faith of others, notably of King George VI, who gave furniture from Windsor Castle for St. Catherine's, and last week offered its principal the use of Windsor's Henry III Tower...