Word: hope
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...women's swim team had reason to hope for a victory last night at Boston College, because the Crimson had come within nine points of the Eagles and this season the squad seemed to have the edge in the longer races. But their hopes were soon dampened as they fell to Boston College...
...seeking to persuade Israel to drop all preconditions and come to the renewed peace conference that President Carter has been pushing for. If Sadat should succeed in the talks that lie ahead, a negotiated settlement, after 29 years of war and brink of war, is within the realm of hope. If he fails, another war becomes a vivid danger. In the process, Sadat has put on the line his position as leader of the moderate Arabs, and perhaps his life as well. Even before he embarked on his mission, Sadat was being denounced in Libya, Iraq and elsewhere...
...often affected by shifts in public opinion. In two successful murder defenses of recent years, feminists succeeded in "raising the consciousness" of the national public about the emotional problems of Southern black women in the Joan Little case and rape victims in the Inez Garcia trial. Now they hope to shift the spotlight to a Wisconsin trial and the battered-wife syndrome...
...hope to get things moving," announced Françoise Giroud when she was appointed France's State Secretary for la Condition Féminine in 1974. Alas, Giroud, who is a co-founder of the French magazines Elle and L'Express, eventually decided that journalists have more clout in France than politicians. So, after leaving the government last March, she returned to the typewriter and banged out The Comedy of Power-a scathing attack on French politicians. As for her former boss, President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, Giroud says, if "an atom bomb fell...
...start to get bitter, and hope that Joe Namath hurts his knee again...