Word: wanted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Puerto Ricans have earned statehood, deserve statehood and want statehood...
...Time is the most valuable thing in life, and I don't want to waste it," he said once. But on Nov. 2, 1956-the night after his masterful Suez speech at the U.N.-he suffered the first abdominal pains of his fateful illness. Next day Walter Reed surgeons removed a malignant lesion from the lower intestine. Last February, after a sharp attack of diverticulitis, he flew to London, Paris, Bonn to consult with the West's leaders and to inspire new unity and new firmness on Berlin; he could scarcely walk, scarcely...
...Morison is constantly answering letters addressed either to him personally or relayed to him by Dean Bundy. He also receives letters from secondary school students all over the country, which he answers only when they ask for specific information. Of the more general type of inquiry he says, "they want me to do their work for them," and so most of these requests end up in the wastebasket...
Morison retains his contacts with the faculty by attending the History Department luncheon on Thursdays, and is often visited by former students. He sees members of the present student body "only when they want to get something" like information for theses...
Constituents inevitably look for spectacular rather than routine results: extension of Lamont's hours leaves them cold--they want extension of parietal hours; "establishing good relations" with the dining hall administration may be valuable, but students want better food. The problem is that students simply do not understand the Council's role...