Word: wish
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Like most of my generation, I have had to try to swallow Freud, Pavlov, Marx, and Pareto, as well as the more indigestible lumps which are not books, but experience...I think I have kept to the basic belief of my youth in the rightness--do I really wish to put it as righteousness?--of human reason. You may write me down as born in the eighteenth century and yet not too umcomfortable--not at any rate schizophrenic--in the mid-twentieth...
...used in a 1928 G.O.P. campaign flyer, and was perpetuated as a Hooverism after Al Smith seized upon it for an ironic, scoffing attack. In any event, the term originated with France's King Henry IV (1553-1610), a champion phrasemaker of his day. He observed: "I wish there would not be a peasant so poor in all my realm who would not have a chicken in his pot every Sunday." Henry was also the three-centuries-removed ghostwriter for James G. Elaine's "plumed knight." He even coined the term le Grand Dessein, which was appropriated...
...premise of this peculiar Yugoslav-Czech fairy story is the kind of wish that every child makes at least once: to drift away to a parentless, teacherless land...
...worm cakes and a highly touted microbe killer ("Will prevent LaGrippe, Catarrh, Consumption, Malaria, Blood Poison, Rheumatism and all disorders of the blood"). There was also an elixir "guaranteed to destroy all desire for liquor" and a magical tonic called "Peruvian wine of cocoa" that was recommended "if you wish to accomplish double the amount of work or have to undergo an unusual amount of hardship." Arsenic wafers were offered to tone up the complexion, and an "electric ring for rheumatism" (85?; goldplated...
...McCarthy said earlier this week that he did not wish his supporters to come to Chicago unless they had specific campaign jobs. Miss Erenstein said this plea is not stopping many McCarthy supporters, and she said she has heard McCarthy staff workers say privately they would like big crowds...