Word: hope
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sacrifice notwithstanding, steam shovels, dredges and swarms of black West Indian laborers wielding picks and shovels scarcely scratched Culebra, an eight-mile stretch where the lowest mountain pass was 275 ft. above sea level. The main hope of the company's creditors was that the U.S. would buy the French rights to the Panama project. Bunau-Varilla, at one time the company's acting director-general, began to lobby the U.S. government to do precisely that...
...city's anger was most personally expressed by Stacy's anguished but controlled mother, Neysa Moskowitz, who said: "An animal like this has to be caught. I hope he suffers for the rest of his life." More directly to the killer, she pleaded: "I hope you get caught, but if you don't, just stop it. If you don't get caught, just stop it." Mayor Abraham Beanie ordered the rehiring of 136 laid-off policemen. In all, 75 detectives and 225 uniformed cops worked full time on the case, while another 700 officers volunteered...
DIED. Ernst Bloch, 92, unorthodox Marxist philosopher with a sizable following among student radicals; of a heart attack; in Tubingen, West Germany. His master work, Das Prinzip Hoffnung (The Principle of Hope), completed during his prewar years in the U.S., laid the groundwork for Theologian Jũrgen Moltmann's "philosophy of hope." Bloch later taught at the University of Leipzig, East Germany, before defecting to the West in 1961 because he was "no longer willing to expose my work or myself to undignified conditions...
...their wal lets. The worst Robinson could expect from his prejudiced competitors was something like a spike wound; the men Scott was running against had, at every race, the means to kill him and in all like lihood get away with it. Moreover, as a black he could not hope to attract well-heeled sponsors...
...year in which Saville was born, and his parents' grief made their reactions to the new baby guarded and distant. In the life of the mind, Saville lives a surrogate boyhood. For him, as for the surrounding villagers, maturity is impossible, and hope is a kind of toy that adults are ashamed to embrace...