Word: hope
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Mahon could only hope that his final figure sensibly measured the distance between the two extremes. He and his committee had talked it over for eleven weeks with the nation's top military people: the past & present Secretaries of Defense, the three Secretaries and their chiefs of staff. The military agreed that if war immediately threatened, the bill should be at least $50 billion, not $15 billion. Said Mahon: "These men did not predict an early outbreak of war, but they agreed that some unpredictable development might throw us suddenly into conflict . . . This, however, was not anticipated . . . No military...
...have tried my level best to carry that burden in the interests of all the people of the country," he said, "and I hope that when the history of the period is written it will be said that the effort was not in vain...
...thought that the world had come halfway along the hard road to peace. He thought that the turning point was not the Marshall Plan but the first announcement of the Truman Doctrine (which he modestly called the Greek-Turkish Aid Program) on March 12, 1947. He voiced a hope that in two more years the rehabilitation of 380 million people in Europe will have stabilized a great part of the world...
...method is too much like the old adage of 'burning down the house to get rid of the rats'. . . We regret deeply that some of our fellow citizens, our friends and neighbors, have seen fit to organize a Ku Klux Klan in Thomson ... it is our earnest hope that these our friends will soon come to see the Klan idea for what we honestly believe it to be, a dangerous mistake...
...Persia at the border of Soviet Armenia. Recently he announced his intention of leading an expedition there in June. Dean Aaron J. Smith of North Carolina's People's Bible College, another enthusiastic amateur, said he would go along. "It's not necessarily the Ark we hope to find," explained Sykes, "but any ship up there that can be keyed in with the dates of the biblical deluge will give more credence to the Old Testament, and I should be happy to do that...