Word: hope
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...there is one more difference between the graduates of the '20s and those of the '70s that Trilling has forgotten to consider. While women could go on to careers in the '20s and '30s, that step meant they had little hope of having families at all. And many fields were closed to them entirely, so that even if they ventured beyond the home, they had little prospect of success...
...look at it as though it were a piece of tin needing to be put someplace, but in the back of your mind you always hope you don't get involved in some mess...
Neither of the junta's aims has been wholly achieved. But a year after the coup, Argentina's military government has brought the country from paralysis to the edge of hope. Terrorism sputters on, but Argentines have learned to cope with it, even ignore it. Buenos Aires' boutiques and restaurants are jammed. The economy, though troubled, shows encouraging signs of strength. Proudly, President Videla claims, "We have progressed a lot in a short time, but we have a long...
Washington had already dispatched $1.2 million worth of parachutes, spare aircraft parts and uniforms to Kinshasa. But the Carter Administration postponed action on Mobutu's request in the hope that diplomatic efforts might halt the fighting. After talks with U.S. officials, Nigerian External Affairs Commissioner Joseph Garba pledged that his country would act as go-between. Other black African nations share Nigeria's concern that the fighting could turn into a full-blown...
According to Schlesinger's estimates, the U.S. has enough coal-"the great black hope"-to last for 400 years. Other experts put the figure far lower, at 50 to 90 years. The supply is adequate to carry the U.S. well past the transition from the end of the oil and gas era to new, possibly not yet discovered sources of energy in the 2000s. The program will count on the profit consciousness of the coal companies, which now mine about 655 million tons per year, as a spur to increasing production to 1 billion or more tons annually...