Word: optimists
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Abbott, who has raised her seven children alone for six years, considers herself an optimist. When Joe Abbott was shot down in April of 1967, there was a period of 2½ years of not knowing whether or not he had made it. In November 1969 she first got word that he was a prisoner...
...always know best. It is, in fact, often "shortsighted." To prove his point, he cited not only such major natural calamities as droughts, hurricanes and earthquakes, but also the periodic deaths of large populations of animals like lemmings, muskrats and rabbits. Said Dubos: "Only the most starry-eyed Panglossian optimist could claim that nature knows best how to achieve population control...
...OPTIMIST'S DAUGHTER by Eudora Welty. A muted Southern tale about dying and surviving and what can be salvaged through genteel memory and raw feeling...
Varsity hockey coach Bill Cleary, who describes himself as an eternal optimist, has every right to look forward to another good season, judging from the new and returning talent on this year's Crimson squad, which is ranked third in the nation in pre-season polls...
...mark of an optimist in the waning days of the McGovern campaign was a hope that the election would be closely contested in the industrial states of the North. For even if these states could not carry McGovern to victory, they could save him from total, pulverizing defeat...