Word: hopefull
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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In running for the at-large congressional seat (which will stay that way unless and until the deadlocked Michigan legislature gets around to setting up a regular district), Staebler hopes to strengthen the entire Democratic state ticket by wooing independent voters, thereby help Swainson beat Republican Gubernatorial Hopeful George Romney...
The Cuban revolution was quite obviously hurting for Yanqui dollars-though a mere $62 million will not go far to repair Cuba's economy. Speculating on very little evidence, some hopeful Washington Castrologists wondered if there might be another reason why Castro seemed eager to negotiate. Was Castro, feeling...
With Evtushenko, it looks forward to a time when "Posterity will remember/And will burn with shame/ Remembering these strange days/ When common honesty was called courage." The crowds who turn out to hear the poets' work are a hopeful portent. When citizens are allowed to judge literature for themselves...
Johns Hopkins' drive was largely powered by President Milton Eisenhower, who says, "I won't rattle a tin cup, but I'll tell the story." In five years, he has changed his school's financial complexion from red to black and doubled the budget to $61...
The Tall Crop. Even the gloomiest builders concede some hopeful signs. Contract awards for private housing were 29% above 1961 levels in January and February. The FHA recently reduced its down-payment minimums to a rock-bottom 3%, which helped send FHA insurance applications 10% above the early 1961 rate...