Word: hope
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...know that little girl deserves to be there. I hope you've looked at that little girl. That's what we're fighting for--the future of that little girl and that little boy for generations and generations to come. Our victory will be won and God give us strength to make it soon." There is a photo of a small black child gazing off into the future on the cover of Brooke's latest literature. There is a fuzzy "Brooke, U.S. Senate" sign in the background...
...think the number of Republicans winning this year will be surprising," King said. "Democrats in this election have been using 1940s-and-'50s-style politicking, rhetoric reminiscent of campaigns run in Mississippi when the Ku Klux Klan was powerful They use lots of divisiveness and fear. I can only hope the electorate is more in touch with the politics of today...
While generals and admirals have paraded in and out of the elegant pale yellow structure over the years, Blair House has remained a place of hope. The original house was built in 1824 by an offshoot of the Lovell family of Massachusetts, taken over later for a century by the Blairs, who came out of Kentucky to join Jackson and waxed wealthy from publishing and real estate. But always the national purpose was a central theme in the family life. Indeed, it was Francis Preston Blair Sr. who twice went off for Lincoln on secret missions to Jefferson Davis...
Sadat has long since abandoned hope of convincing the Syrians, not to mention the Iraqis, that he is bargaining earnestly in behalf of the other Arab states. But he is still trying to persuade moderate Arab states that an Egyptian-Israeli peace treaty would be merely the first step toward a comprehensive settlement. To make it easier for the Israelis, he is prepared to allow this point to be made in the preamble to the treaty rather than in the agreement itself. So far, however, the Israelis seem to want no part...
Even if the latest hurdles can be overcome, the end of negotiations seemed further away than it had only a week earlier. The Carter Administration had all but abandoned any hope of holding the signing ceremony by Nov. 19, the first anniversary of Sadat's journey to Jerusalem. At week's end an aide to Menachem Begin predicted that the big event would take place in early December. If so, it could be held just before or after Dec. 10, the day when the Nobel Peace Prizes are to be presented to the recipients in Oslo...