Word: hope
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Poised. Before the triumphal entry, the local folk spent long hours sprucing up the vicinity. Said an amazed G.I. jeep driver, noting that old holes in the road near Nagasaki had been filled in: "I hope this guy comes here more often. This is the first comfortable ride I've had." Schoolchildren swept streets and sidewalks with small brooms hours before the Emperor was scheduled to pass. This practice -; led Japanese Communists and many Americans to speak of Hirohito as hoki san, or "the broom...
...Japanese subjects now call him ochitsuite (poised-and-at-his-ease)-a high personal compliment. Hirohito's /ords are few, but well chosen and sometimes surprising. To union bosses at Nagasaki's big Mitsubishi heavy-industry plant, he said warningly, "Thank you for your cooperation. I hope you will work for a healthy labor union." To coal miners, he appealed, "I should like to ask you to produce much more." To the children of the Catholic Holy Mother Orphanage at Omura, he admonished, "Work hard, pray to Jesus Christ, and grow to be good...
...last week, Bidault would only say that both M.R.P. and De Gaulle served France-"but in different ways." De Gaulle, he added, was a "brilliant and fleeting hope...
Pessimists who fear that science is exhausting nature's mysteries can take fresh hope from a newly published book: The Natural History of Mosquitoes, by Dr. Marston Bates (Macmillan; $5). Mosquitoes punch holes in man; they pester him, keep him awake, infect him with deadly diseases. So well-financed scientists, determined to deal with mosquitoes, have studied them intensively for more than half a century, accumulating a vast amount of information. But, as Dr. Bates points out, they have hardly begun to find out how even the best-known species go about their business...
...harassed Commodity Credit Corp., and of Congressmen who were frightened of the political repercussions of a wheat glut. The CCC, which now owns most of the old crops still on hand, had been doing its best to move it out of storage and to the Gulf ports in the hope of increasing export. But there was a limit on how fast it could be moved. This week, the Association of American Railroads, unwilling to let its cars get tied up with orphan wheat, embargoed all shipments which did not have storage space reserved in advance...