Word: hopefull
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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The question of default now rests heavily on the performance of the Emergency Financial Control Board, the surrogate mayor of New York City. Assuming that the $2 billion financial package holds up, the board will have three months in which to devise a program that can start to put the...
Everyone in Cambodia, Schanberg wrote, "looked ahead with hopeful relief to the collapse of the city [Phnom Penh], for they felt that when the Communists came and the war finally ended, at least the suffering would largely be over. All of us were wrong. That view of the future of...
The results of the Rangely experiments led USGS Geophysicists Raleigh and James Dietrich to propose an ingenious scheme. They suggested drilling a row of three deep holes about 500 yds. apart, along a potentially dangerous fault. By pumping water out of the outer holes, they figured they could effectively strengthen...
Continued Vigil. Outwardly, law enforcement agents remained optimistic about solving the case. They hoped that the huge $275,000 reward would persuade somebody involved in the plot to talk. The investigation will be intensified this week or next when subpoenas are issued for grand jury appearances. Reportedly among those to...
The Americans," Walt Whitman wrote in the 1850s, "are going to be the most fluent and melodious-voiced people in the world, and the most perfect users of words." The line was more hopeful than prophetic. Today, many believe that the American language has lost not only its melody but...