Word: hoping
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Even Clint Anderson had little hope of defeating Strauss-but he determined that it would not be for lack of trying. Not himself a member of the Commerce Committee, he was notably present during most of the long, disputatious hearings. Appearing as a witness armed with a 42-page attack, Anderson accused Strauss of practicing "deception," telling "unqualified falsehoods" and creating "myths" about his achievements. Having hurled his thunderbolts, Anderson took a seat close behind Wyoming's Gale McGee, a committee member, fed him information and questions to use against Strauss. A liberal with an instinctive dislike for Hoover...
...clear fact that was emerging from the Geneva talks is that if the West has little to hope for at the summit, it has little to fear either. The Western position has proved sturdy despite the allies' much-publicized suspicions of one another. Perhaps significant concessions by one side or the other might come out of a summit meeting. But, as Geneva has shown, they are not likely to be the result of impulse or mistaken trust by either side...
...Prime Minister Macmillan there was nothing to do but fire off a cable to Lloyd assuring him of full support and confidence, and in Parliament to remark carefully in passing that "the Foreign Secretary and I hope to carry on our work together for a long time...
...British Empire, the physical City of London is a square mile of tangled alleyways originally built for handcarts and daily clogged with motorcar traffic. When the bombs fell, they at least opened spaces that had not seen the sun for centuries. After the war, Londoners began to hope that what Sir Christopher Wren was never able to do for the City after the Great Fire of 1666, a modern architect might do. But the new buildings that arose haphazardly were the same old "Bankers' Georgian," and each day 350,000 businessmen, clerks and stevedores still swarmed into the City...
...prophets. To atheists, politics is religion; rival schemes of wordly order, are, literally, conflicting eschatologies; and the contemporary sense of individual political impotence is as awful a burden as Luther's overwhelming sense of guilt and sin, of total depravity--"the dark night of the soul"--before he discovered hope in the unmerited gift of Divine Grace...