Word: hoping
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Some of these schemes had no hope of adoption; others had little short-run relevance to the political ferment in the Middle East. ("When the principal personalities in a government are living in daily fear of murder and assassination," noted Secretary of State Dulles last week, "it is very hard to get their minds onto a program of economic development.") But, whether a summit meeting might do more than register familiar attitudes depended on how much either Khrushchev or Nasser really worried that the Middle East might get out of hand, and how willing they would be to treat specific...
...forces be withdrawn. Anti-Communist and essentially pro-Western, he believes Lebanon cannot survive unless it works out a lasting relationship with Nasser. Chehab is likely to withdraw Chamoun's commitment to the Eisenhower Doctrine and reaffirm Lebanese neutrality among Arab lands. Nonetheless, Washington calls him the "best hope" for peace in Lebanon...
...viewed the strange union with Gallic tolerance and were closemouthed with strangers. Three times in the 14 years French police came, looking for "a missing American soldier." Each time Yvette hid Wayne in a cubbyhole under the stairs. Back in Chillicothe, Mo., Wayne's father gradually gave up hope of ever seeing him again; in 1950 Wayne's wife Ruth got a divorce on the grounds of desertion, and disappeared from town...
...possibility of a paratroop coup still haunts French politics. Said Consultative Committee Chairman, famed old Parliamentarian Paul Reynaud, 79, expressing the hope that the suggestions of his committee would help to get the new constitution passed, "for we know that its failure would reopen the crisis of May while depriving us of the only man who can resolve...
...last month, the weather did better than the government. A fierce storm toppled the big antenna into the sea. Undaunted, Fogh made repairs. He already has contracts worth $292,000 from commercial-time sales. His goal: 800,000 steady listeners and a lot more kroner. Says he happily: "We hope to break the state monopoly and eventually get permission to operate on dry land. After that, we'll build a television transmitter as well...