Word: hoping
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Hope, actor LL.D...
Construction showed a $400 million gain to $4.1 billion in May-and gave the Northwest's troublesome lumber industry real hope for better business. Though output is down 10% from last year, lumbermen talk encouragingly of a second-half push that might carry the industry 2% or 3% ahead...
...every woman wants to hear: "You, too, can be beautiful." "There are no ugly women," say the ads for Manhattan's Diedre line, "only lazy ones." Says Steve Mayham of the Toilet Goods Association: "This is an industry of ideas and imagination, and what we are selling is hope." The industry encourages hope by sur rounding itself with the most enticing come-ons since Eve described the apple...
...early years of the century. It was not until World War I that makeup crawled back to respectability, and not until the Roaring Twenties that it dared to flaunt its painted face-under a permanent wave, invented in Switzerland by Charles Nessler. This wonderful electric gadget brought hope that every head could be curly-though many a hair curled at the early cost: $200. (In 1938 San Francisco's Willat company introduced the cold wave, which gradually made the machine permanent obsolete...
More than 2,000 years ago. in a campaign against King Artaxerxes II, a force of Greek troops was trapped deep in the Persian Empire. Surrounded by hostile armies, the Greeks had no hope of reinforcement and no allies, were separated from home by broad rivers, towering mountain ranges, snow-covered plateaus...