Word: hopes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Back home in Waukegan, Sentoria Montgomery did more than hope. She worked part-time as a cook, spent about $7,000 of her own and her brother's money trying to get her husband out of prison. For 24 years she found only frustration; but two years ago she found Luis Kutner, a flashy, wealthy Chicago lawyer...
...cases in the U.S.-a record total for so early in the year. But even so, there were 13,000 who had escaped the disease for every one who was stricken. Comparing 1949 with former years, health officers in New York City, Detroit and Chicago saw reason to hope that the outbreak was at or near its peak, and would soon taper...
There is, of course, a big nucleus of still-bright stars like Bing Crosby, Bob Hope, Betty Grable, Gregory Peck, Esther Williams, Linda Darnell, Tyrone Power, Jimmy Stewart, Olivia de Havilland, Joan Fontaine. But the public, according to experienced Hollywoodsmen, is scanning the marquees for new names...
...request he was buried in once-damned Swedish soil, under a simple oak cross bearing the inscription Ave Crux Spes Unica (Hail, Cross! The Only Hope...
...Oasis come from one or other of two emphatic and talkative echelons. First are "the purists," who believe that in these tough times the best hope for mankind is for idealists to build "oases" of humaneness and brotherly love. Stringing along with them, largely out of spiteful hope of seeing the experiment fail, are "the realists," cynical ex-Commies who still retain ("from their Leninist days") the smug and fanciful notion that they are a revolutionary elite. Steeped in a Marx-cum-Freud conviction that no man can "resist history, environment, class structure, psychic conditioning," the realists take for granted...