Word: hoping
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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America's other Henley hope, the University of Washington heavyweight crew, had been eliminated two days before the final by the Russian Trud (Labor) Crew which won the Grand Challenge...
...soon silenced. (At week's end, Malraux, although retained in the Cabinet, was relieved of his post as spokesman for the De Gaulle government.) Malraux is the author of some of the most influential French novels of this century (Man's Fate, Man's Hope), an erudite art historian (The Voices of Silence, The Metamorphosis of the Gods), and an old revolutionist who served in the Chinese Civil War of 1927 and the Spanish Civil War, still limps from leg wounds suffered during his days as "Colonel Berger" of the World War II French Maquis...
...despairing about West German women: "They didn't stop to think, didn't use their heads, or refuse to believe the letters out of confidence in their husbands. No. They opened them, read them and, instantly, they were convinced." Another officer had a different concern. "I hope," he mused thoughtfully, "that soldiers now won't get the idea of nonchalantly palming off real evidence of unfaithfulness as nothing but 'Communist propaganda...
Behind these attacks on Tito-whom the Soviets had no real hope of bringing to heel-lay Khrushchev's determination to stamp out "revisionism" in the satellites, and particularly in Wladyslaw Gomulka's Poland, the one nation in the Soviet bloc that has managed to achieve some scant room for maneuver within the bonds of Russian domination. With their customary stubbornness, the Poles had at first refused to join in the general satellite rejoicing over the Hungarian executions. Speaking in Poznan, Polish Foreign Minister Adam Rapacki said that Gomulka agreed to visit Budapest two months ago only after...
...Globe Moby Dick, "adapted" by one high school English teacher and edited by another, begins with an explanation to the student: "Herman Melville, the author, a man of wide learning and sea experience, included in the volume much philosophy, literature, nautical, scientific and other material that few readers can hope to understand well. His vocabulary, in many places, is beyond secondary school experience ..." The adapter continues fair-mindedly: "Neither you nor Melville is to blame for this." In a separate aside to the teacher, the editor advises that "in the original, Moby Dick is shrouded in symbolism and mysticism...