Word: hoping
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...confident that when the issue comes up again our good people will again vote no. We hope also to have beer outlawed some day, and it is a wonderful place to live. Why don't some of you come and join...
...disarmament, such as stoppage of nuclear-weapons production. Said Ike: "As the U.S. has frequently made clear, the suspension of testing is not in itself a measure of disarmament. An agreement in this respect is significant if it leads to other and more substantial agreements. It is in this hope that the U.S. makes this proposal...
...hope . . . that the great court exercise to the full its power of judicial self-restraint by adhering firmly to its tremendous, strictly judicial powers and by eschewing, so far as possible, the exercise of essentially legislative powers...
...Hunters (20th Century-Fox) was made with "the cooperation of the Defense Department and the U.S. Air Force," who obviously hope that moviegoers will smile tolerantly at the story and concentrate on admiring the zooming jets. Bob Mitchum plays a Korean war fighter pilot who falls in love with his wingman's wife. The triangle could hardly be less isosceles...
...Perse never allows the hope of purification and renewal to gutter out. In Anabasis (1924), his best-known work, partly thanks to an excellent translation by T.S. Eliot, Perse tells of the seedtime of history. Man, the nomad, ranges out over the deserts of the East, "Ploughland of dream." He raises and then razes a city. In Winds (1946), great storms sweep across Europe, "leaving us in their wake, Men of straw in the year of straw." The restless hero finds himself in the West as Perse conjures up the discovery and dynamism of America-"the great expresses . . . with their...