Word: optimistically
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Optimist Trecker. A few toolmakers still like the looks of their industry. Among the most conspicuously cheerful is Joseph L. Trecker, vice president of Milwaukee's Kearney & Trecker, which makes one-third of all the milling machines in the U.S. (TIME...
...that he had asked British permission to see India's imprisoned Mohandas K. Gandhi and Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, and that the permission had been refused. India's Viceroy, the Marquess of Linlithgow, took Phillips on a tiger hunt instead. Commented London politicos: "Phillips would indeed be an optimist if he thought he could converse with Gandhi and Nehru...
...courage, Dutch stubbornness, and physical optimism this was not a matter of awful concern. He has never minded reaching a low point the year before an election. But on the day of his anniversary came strong strictures from a longtime thick-&-thin Roosevelt supporter, strictures to make even an optimist look to his political fences. Said the New Deal New York Post...
...super-optimist and conclude that [this] is the beginning of the end. It is only another great stride forward in our part of the war. Our great advance guard overseas must be followed by a great main body-or else...
Optimism. General Sir Archibald Wavell reported on his recent inspection trip to Assam and Bengal, the northeastern provinces where a Japanese invasion is threatened when the monsoon rains end in mid-October. Optimist Wavell compared Japan to a boa constrictor which has swallowed a goat and has to have time to digest it. He spoke of retaking Burma. Wavell's optimism may have been regarded by some as a military boost to the United Nations. But there was no cause for optimism in a political situation that, unless remedied, will endanger the United Nations' dealing with Asia...