Word: hopes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Britain to tie her recovering economy to France's, and to rate the defense of Strasbourg as important as the defense of Dover. Still, they believe that, in order to achieve European union, the British must take military and economic risks, i.e., gamble on the hope that the French will somehow pull through...
...With the hope that hostilities may be brought to an end and the people's suffering relieved, I have decided to retire . . . Vice President Li Tsung-jen will exercise the duties and powers of President . . ."When he finished, 61-year-old Chiang asked for comments, not on his decision, but on the phrasing of his statement...
...Saint Thomas out for the last five years? Museum officials had little hope of ever finding out. But of one thing they were certain. Whether or not conscience played a part in the return of the painting, the thief had been in possession of a minor treasure that was not negotiable: the world art market had been alerted to watch out for Saint Thomas, and it could not have been sold without almost certain arrest...
There was no hope for that until the buyer's market had brought something like prewar sales conditions. Charles Erwin Wilson did not look for it until the prices of late-model used cars were at least 25% under new car prices. That seemed some time off; despite the used-car slump, most G.M., Ford and Chrysler "new" used cars were still selling at over the list prices last week. Thus, most automakers thought that car prices would stay where they were for a long time. As for Wilson, who wanted prices to come down, too, he said...
...Paleface. Bob Hope and Jane Russell wring some horse laughs out of a parody on horse operas (TIME...