Word: hopes
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...doctrine, as the primary reason for Our Lord's Incarnation, and in centering its worship upon the Eucharist, the "medicine of immortality." That is the correct Catholic instinct, fulfilling what, from my psychological studies, I have concluded is the primary instinct of man-the desire for immortality, that hope which is behind all the myths...
...share of his program, excepting, of course, civil rights. When Stennis went down to the White House to push a friend for a U.S. attorneyship, Harry Truman didn't even ask him, Stennis reported, how he intended to vote on Taft-Hartley. With grim significance, Stennis added: "I hope and expect him to appoint this gentleman...
Shanghai's Garrison Commander Chen Ta-ching spoke bravely of making Shanghai "a second Stalingrad." Quietly and unannounced, Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek had briefly visited Shanghai, defiantly proclaimed his hope of "final victory" in three years. A long-gowned shopkeeper, standing in his deserted tobacco shop, read the Gimo's words, said sadly: "Mo-liao yi pao [his last salvo...
...candy and cake" atmosphere, refused to allow an ice show in the coliseum or a professional football game in the L.S.U. stadium. He frowned on the university's traditional brand of student election campaigns, with their bathing beauties, free shoeshines, jazz bands, fire engines and acrobats. "I hope I am the last person to take the joy out of going to college," he told his students, "but just what sort of a university do you want...
...Sullivan Bill seemed to be just another one of the series of anti-Red bills when it came up before the Education Committee of the Massachusetts legislature at the end of March. Even its sponsor did not hold out much hope for its passage. But H442 has gained a lot of momentum since then. It passed the House of Representatives Wednesday by a voice vote, with not a single dissenting murmur, and has been sent to the Senate for consideration...