Word: hopes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...days were warm and pleasant, the nights were still cool, and U.S. citizens began to think happily of summer vacations in the mountains, on the shore, or pounding along the nation's sun-shimmering highways. For a change, there was hope in the international air, too. In the smiling rose garden back of the White House, Harry Truman spoke to a group of war correspondents who were off to revisit the wreckage-strewn Normandy beaches on the fifth anniversary of Dday...
...Truman last week (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS) and Winston Churchill. Said Churchill in London: "There was a time in 1935 and 1936 when I used to hear . . . 'ancestral voices prophesying war!' But now I am thankful to say I do not hear those voices ... I have a growing hope that by the strength of our united civilization, and by our readiness and preparedness to defend freedom with our lives, we may avert forever the horrible vision of a third world...
...denomination's name to the less regional-sounding "American Baptist Convention." To counter any Southern suspicion that this was a new act of aggression, the Northerners also voted to invite their big Southern sister to unite with them in establishing the "American Baptist Convention." But there was scant hope that the Dixie Baptists would accept this extended hand...
...entire report was divided into three sections. The first part "described the outlook for the second half of the twentieth century as a period marked by two paradoxes: 1) The world is both united and divided...2) The...coexistence of fear and hope" in the world...
...tend to prefer those authors whose ideas, while superficial, are presented in a stimulating and exciting way. H. L. Mencken, at the very least, is such an author. I submit that he is often considerably more, and with this I pass into silence, pausing only to express the heartfelt hope that persons of excessive gravity will not read this book. If they do, they will put it to death, and it will go out of print as fast, and with as little reason, as did the works from which it has been culled...