Word: hope
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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What Mao did was to explode the hope that the Western democracies could do business with Communist China and thus gradually wean its Red masters away from allegiance to world communism. Mao announced, in effect, that Titoism was not for him. Said he: "We belong to the anti-imperialist front headed by the U.S.S.R., and we can only look for genuine friendly aid from that front and not from the imperialist front...
...Western commandants would get together with the Russians to try to work out a solid agreement on trade and traffic between the West zones and Berlin. Meanwhile, the steady day & night roar of the planes-which had brought terror to Berlin during the war and defiant hope during the peace-would continue as before. The U.S. announced that Operation Vittles would be carried on indefinitely; it was too important a weapon to be dismantled...
They also hope for a break to develop from the general uneasiness that now characterizes Venezuelan life. Some of the uneasiness stems from last winter's 20% cutback in oil production which threw hundreds out of jobs. Even more has been caused by the junta's failure so far to fulfill its promise to restore constitutional rights and to free political prisoners...
...attack on the newspaper, President Perón said: "I hope La Prensa will pardon this digression, which is after all only one small comment, whereas it publishes articles against me every day of the year." Next day La Prensa printed his speech without comment...
Sorrowful Jones. Bob Hope in a series of lively gags grafted onto a Damon Runyon story (TIME, June...