Word: hoping
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...nation throw our complete resources, unselfishly and without war profiteering, back of the nations that are physically fighting our battles on foreign fields in the hope that the evil things that menace us may never have to be met physically on our own shores...
...Crisis and its ripening into war, he was whistling for the wind. More eloquent than any poll of the public temper last week was the conclusion of Franklin Roosevelt that he could not prudently restate his ends. Up to last week he had accompanied them with assurances of his hope and belief that the U. S. could stay out of war. Sensitive to a nation sensitized by the fact of war, he conveyed one impression last week: that the U. S. will stay...
Woodring: "We are not setting up any war boards or war machinery and, as far as I am concerned, I hope we never will...
...know what I would say," she quietly replied, "I only hope it would be something which would prove to the English people how much I love them...
...hope the day will come when the Admiralty will be able to invite ships of all nations to join the British convoys and in sure them on their voyages at a reasonable rate. . . . We hope . . . that by the end of October we shall have three times as many hunting craft at work as we had at the beginning of the war. . . . We hope that our means of putting down this pest will grow continually...