Word: hopes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Some time ago the belligerent parties have declared they would not be unwilling to examine a reasonable and well-founded basis for an equitable peace. . . . We are ready to offer them our good offices. . . . We hope our offer will be accepted and that thus the first step will be taken toward establishment of a durable peace...
...help the search for dynamiters, blacked-out Munich was suddenly lit up. Someone started a wildfire rumor that lights meant peace: the Netherlands-Belgium offer had taken effect. Soon Germany's second hysterical false armistice was in full celebration. Police angrily cleared the streets and killed the hope...
Federation. "There are some who believe that the new order will only come through surrender in some measure by the nations of their sovereign rights, in order to clear the way for some more organic union. But if it is our hope to create a more truly international system out of independent States, we must learn the lessons of the past. No paper plan will endure that does not freely spring from the will of the peoples who alone can give it life. . . . There is a cynical saying that it is often the task of the wise to repair...
...radio ham acquaintances. A landslide, he said, had damaged the islanders' boats in Bounty Bay; rats (mostly Bounty descendants, too) were eating up the island's few crops, had even got into the orange trees; everybody was well but supplies were running low; the only hope of hearing from the outside world was through a tiny crystal set with only a 60-mile range, too short to reach the nearest shipping lane...
...some great doings. In 1859 a band of 100 cadets trooped to Charles Town to witness the hanging of an indiscreet fanatic named John Brown. In 1861 a 37-year-old instructor quit his ten-year job at V. M. I., went off to become Stonewall Jackson, the Great Hope of the South. The school graduated 823 men who became officers in the Confederate Army, ranking from major general to second lieutenant. The entire cadet corps rushed to New Market to help check the Union advance through Shenandoah Valley. Union troops later burned their school buildings to a blackened shell...