Word: hopes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sincerely hope that we can avoid strife, but we cannot avoid striving for what is right...
Britain's Ernest Bevin spoke with fervor and measured hope: "We have today embarked on a great adventure ... a most famous historical undertaking . . . This new [North Atlantic] pact brings us under a wider roof of security ... It is certainly one of the greatest steps toward world peace ... a new era of cooperation and understanding...
...incomes of its citizens? The Economist thinks not. In fact, it said: "The long continuance of taxation of anything like 40% of the national income will ruin the country. It will not do so spectacularly in any one year or the next-there might be more hope if it would...
Profitable Lode. The moneymaking Gazette, which once got most of its outside news by printing the letters of traveling readers as "foreign correspondence" now has U.P. and A.P. service and a list of national columnists (Winchell, Bob Hope, E. V. Durling). But it also keeps its smalltown flavor and emphasis on local affairs, and as Alexandria's only daily, mines a profitable lode of local advertising. It makes little attempt to compete with nearby Washington papers...
...Paleface. Bob Hope in a comic horse opera (TIME...