Word: wished
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...current situation in Greece. The letter read, in part: "Since the whole truth about the real meaning of the struggle the Greek nation is waging has never been properly understood . . . your article was an occasion of bringing home this truth and making it known to all those who wish to learn what is really taking place in Greece...
Then Mrs. Negishi was heard from. He had left her and the kids behind in sweltering Tokyo and she, too, wanted a vacation in verdant Chiba. Wearily, Negishi returned to Tokyo to see what he could do about his wife's wish. With him was a 17-year-old youngster (the brother of the girl at the inn) who happened to be a pickpocket by profession. One day, when Negishi wondered aloud how he would ever pay for his wife's holiday, his companion advanced an idea. In one day, the pair lifted 800 yen ($2.20) from passengers...
...else, Yuasa was still a Christian; he decided to stay on in America in protest against the war. From 1942 to 1946 he worked as consultant for a New York interdenomination committee to help U.S. Japanese. "I am 100% Japanese," Yuasa explained, "but I am a Christian Japanese ... I wish to be a symbol of the Church Universal...
...Yuasa's wish has at last been amply realized; he has just been appointed president of Japan's new International Christian University. Long a dream of Christians on both sides of the Pacific, the I.C.U. will open in 1951, specializing in graduate courses. To finance the university, Japanese businessmen have raised 150 million yen (about half a million dollars); next month, a $10 million fund-raising drive will be launched...
...than he became suddenly convinced that a former friend, the Polish writer, Stanislaw Przybyszewski, was trying to kill him by filtering poison gas through the walls of his room. He fled, writing to a friend to take care of his remains if he were killed, since he did not wish to be cut up by medical students. "The cheapest is cremation (50 francs)," he advised. "I do not want to lie in Swedish soil, for it is damned...