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Word: hope (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Both Stenhouse and Wilhite hope to play in the big leagues one day. Wilhite is a bluechip pro prospect this year and is looking forward to being drafted...

Author: By Robert Sidorsky, | Title: A Couple of Classy Guys | 4/22/1978 | See Source »

...that people have stopped believing they can overcome. (Although why should they? What is there in the past ten years to convince them otherwise?) But the song is hard on people who want to believe they are accomplishing something by marching; it's a reminder of the hope that people placed in King, a hope that got pretty small around 1968. This time, after a verse or two, the band of singers give up on "We Shall Overcome," and instead, resume chanting "We won't go back, Send Bakke back." This time round, even if there is still hope, there...

Author: By Peter R. Melnick, | Title: Boston-to-D.C.Bakke Blues | 4/22/1978 | See Source »

...only hope that before writing his next critical comments on a social scientist and his theories, Mr. Emmerich might do more background homework research. This is not a funny matter. For in making the sweeping generalizations against DeVore and "sociobiology" J. Wyatt Emmerich displays the inconsistencies and foibles to which he attributes DeVore. And this tactic is conservative politics at its very worst. --Steven P. Stepak

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Encore, Encore | 4/20/1978 | See Source »

...supporting players might raise their volume a little; during the second act, someone says Moon is locked in the brig, after he has clearly participated in the previous production number--oh hell, enough. The flourishes compensate for the flaws: the chorus singing tastefully offstage while only Billy and Hope dance during "It's DeLovely;" the words "knock-knock" delivered in character (Steward--bouncy, Purser--officious, etc.) by anyone knocking on invisible stateroom doors; and the nice little zings of punctuation that end a number like "Let's Step...

Author: By David B. Edelstein, | Title: Porter Ambrosia | 4/20/1978 | See Source »

...coalition of citizens' groups representing 5000 Medical Area residents opposed to the power plant this week charged Harvard with stalling the hearing for the appeal within the DEQE in the hope that new federal nitrogen dioxide standards due in August will be higher than the plant's projected emissions. Four members of the coalition will testify at Environmental Protection Agency hearings in Washington today on the need for a low standard...

Author: By Alan Cooperman, | Title: Harvard Faces Power Plant Lawsuit | 4/19/1978 | See Source »

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