Word: hope
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...just hope that some of the people who aren't in the picture yet will get in there, so we'll be able to use them early," Restic said yesterday...
...certainly an encouraging development," Guido G. Goldman '59, senior lecturer on Government, said, adding, "I hope it has given each party enough to sustain it to the point that we can have a signed peace...
Incumbents Dukakis and Brooke, both facing formidable opponents, hope for a large voter turnout, but predicted bad weather is expected to reduce the crowds at the polls...
...most significant factor in the accumulation of CO2 is the burning of fossil fuels. Especially worrisome is the Carter Administration's choice of coal as the U.S.'s great energy hope. Unlike competing nuclear power, which gives off no CO2, coal will inevitably add to a buildup of the gas, as will the increased consumption of other fossil fuels. A National Academy of Sciences study panel warns that if the use of coal proceeds along the Administration's projections, atmospheric concentration of CO2 might reach four to eight times that of the pre-industrial level...
...preface to Silences, Tillie Olsen takes a sentence from Andre' Gide as her epigram: "I intend to bring you strength, joy, courage, perspicacity, defiance." It is in her discussion of the subtler, unspoken, often unconscious ways society has of grinding human beings down that she comes closest to inspiring hope in the reader. By asking the writer "questions" is this true? Is this all?" Olsen overturns values that too many repressed people unconsciously accept. Here she lists the insights stored up during her period of silence. Each is a revelation in miniature, liberating the reader from widely--held misconceptions, many...