Word: wished
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...minimum of five years in prison and a $10,000 fine. But as she left the courtroom she indulged in a final bit of defiant dramatics and daffy reasoning that left newsmen wondering if she really knew what the trial had all been about. Said Traitor Gillars: "I wish those who judge me would be willing to risk their lives for America...
Since fewer meals will, presumably, be taken at the Dinning Halls, I find it very singular that the average, and hence the total, charge per person should rise rather than diminish: in other words, that the Dining Galls management either cannot deal accurately with figures or does not wish to, two alternatives which one is equally reluctant to accept. Harold P. Furth...
...bishop] has acted in the face of the expressed wish of more than 70% of the qualified voters of my parish and, as I am advised by my counsel, in violation of both the letter and the spirit of Canon [law] . . . Four bishops have broken all precedents by indicating their willingness to enter the jurisdiction of a brother bishop to testify on my behalf, as have over 30 other outstanding church leaders...
...have repeatedly said that we are both willing to resign if that is the wish of the congregation. I cannot withdraw from this fight so long as my congregation wishes me to stay...
...fold when it turns out that his daughter won't marry the boss's son after all. Even a character named "Digger" O'Dell, an undertaker with a morgue full of morbid jokes, is not out of place in Bendix' parlor. Moviegoers may wish they had stayed at home around the radio, where someone could keep a hand on the tuning knob...