Word: hoping
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...also hope the bull recovers...
...power, wispy Fi put on sale 3.5% tax-free government bonds, which as a hedge against inflation will be pegged to the market value of the gold napoleon (last week 3.600 francs). While De Gaulle appealed to patriotism in launching the loan. Pinay remembered the practical side. In the hope of attracting urgently needed foreign exchange, Pinay was even prepared to let Frenchmen buy the bond with previously undeclared - and hence illegal - foreign currency holdings. "That law," explained Pinay blandly, "has never been enforced anyway." De Gaulle himself was hard at work on constitutional reform. Some details gradually leaked...
Even harder to bear was the return to De Gaulle of Jacques Soustelle, the beetle-browed ex-Governor General of Algeria whose demagogic appeals for integration into France had made him the white hope of the Algerian diehards. At De Gaulle's behest, Soustelle last week slipped off to Paris in a special plane, trailing behind him uncharacteristically moderate remarks about "federal possibilities" for Algeria, and a cloud of rumors that he was about to receive a government post. Watching him go, the diehards suddenly recognized that there might be more than one explanation for the fact that cold...
...crowded Caribbean island that flies a proud one-star flag beside the Stars and Stripes. To men in New Delhi, Accra, Bangkok and Morocco, tiny Puerto Rico, which has clawed its way in 15 years to a nearly doubled standard of living, spoke an urgent message of hope through self-help-and spoke it with the special clarity of a teacher who is only ten pages ahead of the class...
...diameter of its crater is nearly doubled. All these figures are for soil, not for resistant rock, but it looks as if a single megaton charge and two or three 100-kiloton charges could blast a harbor big enough for almost any purpose. The residual radioactivity, the AECmen hope, will die down to tolerable levels in a month...