Word: hopes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...work in uranium mines. A few lucky applicants are flown to Western Germany. Others must remain in Berlin, return to their homes, or continue their perilous journey afoot through the Russian zone to the West. Rosenow explained: "Panic alone is not enough. We have that everywhere. We can hope to help only those who must flee to live-and perhaps to fight again another...
...cannot understand, what it is to live under the Russians," she explained. "At first, you don't see anything evil. The pressure comes slowly, incalculably-until suddenly you know you must die or flee or betray." Last night Frau K. sneaked back to her town with little hope. She and the doctor can have no promise of being flown to the West...
...hope that the Reds would soften their high-flying terms by traditional Chinese bargaining methods was expressed by a postman: "It's just like arguing with a ricksha coolie. First he asks for the highest price and then settles for a lower figure." But it was unlikely that the victory-flushed Communists would observe tradition. What was there to dike the flood of Communism if Chiang and the Reds failed to agree on a price...
...Religious Front," which campaigns (with little hope of success) for a state based on the law of the Torah. Two of its chief planks: strict observance of the Sabbath, and a ban on importation of nonkosher meat...
With no more adventure ahead, it would be a dull world for physicists. But Dr. Gamow voices a small hope that they need not give up to boredom. Perhaps, he speculates, bigger & better telescopes "will show us sights that will cause a complete turnover of present ideas concerning the universe." Or perhaps electrons and protons will turn out to be not "elementary particles" but small, intricate worlds jam-packed with new and fascinating problems...